Word: brawls
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...Floor Leader Kenneth Wherry put the rumblings into words. From now on, Wherry announced, he would refuse to be bound by the decisions made by "bipartisan bigwigs." He proposed that all new foreign commitments be hauled down to the floor of the Senate for a full-dress brawl-a proposal which the Christian Science Monitor denounced as an attempt to "Wherrymander" U.S. foreign policy...
...degradation of royalty as it wallows in its plot; "Western Union" sticks to putting up its telegraph line. "Buffalo Bill" gapes for minutes at a time at its overdressed heroine--it was a dour day when someone discovered that Alexis Smith in tights, watching a bar-room brawl, could pull in millions of dollars from audiences that had formerly found Westerns beyond comprehension...
...took eleven hard-tackling New York cops to arrest famed Drop-Kicker Charles C. Brickley, 58, Harvard All-America (1912-13) and his 30-year-old son, Charles Brickley Jr., during an early-morning brawl in a Manhattan restaurant. According to testimony, the fight started when Brickley overheard someone say: "Is that old bald-headed so-and-so Charlie Brickley, the football player...
There were some 25 minutes of penalties called during the contest, but referee Cleary did a creditable job in keeping the game out of the "barroom brawl" category...
...real rough hockey and a possible brawl is what you're looking for in the way of entertainment, by all means wend your way down to the Boston Arena tonight. The varsity hockey team and B.U., the two contenders whose most recent skirmish resulted last year in 58 minutes of penalties and four serious injuries, face off at 9 p.m. in the second half of the season's first hockey double bill...