Word: brawls
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...What! No scotch! Who's giving this brawl anyway...
Nothing so pleases a man who likes to beat his wife as a loud brawl among the neighbors, and last week Japan's yellow men were elated as whites & blacks made front page war (see p. 19). Haggard old China has been due for another beating all summer, and spry Japan, while prepared to lay on the whangee anyhow, is well content that it should make only back-page news. Almost unnoticed last week, seven Japanese river gunboats steamed up the swirling, muddy Yangtze to put huge Hankow, the "Chicago of China," at the mercy of Japanese shot...
...retired fisticuffer named Bobby Dobbs, is a museum of superb old furniture. When he took a party of guests to the Sands Point Bath Club in 1933, it was characteristic of Promoter Curley that Senator Huey Long chose that evening to disgrace himself, by engaging in a brawl which Curley had to referee. Similar coincidences had caused Promoter Curley to become a crony of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, just before his assassination started the War; accidentally annoy Pancho Villa in 1915; act as pallbearer at Theodore Roosevelt's funeral and supply a night's free lodging to Edward...
...round of vituperation when the affair was brought abruptly to a halt (TIME. July 22). For each of the seconds had a second and he was Franklin Roosevelt. If Second-Second Roosevelt followed the ancient code he would merely stick a rapier into himself. Instead, last week, after the brawl was over, he announced the terms of an honorable settlement: Measure for Measure. With even-handed justice, the President found new jobs for Governor Pearson and Judge Wilson...
...unusual combination of circumstances the bill fell into the hands of uninflammable men. . . . None of them felt called upon to go forth and make a brawl of it. ... The result is a bill which is fundamentally stronger than the first draft, a bill which is not a victory or a defeat for any one, but is simply the outcome of a useful discussion by honest and reasonable and modest men. ... If the Utility Bill is a shining example of how not to go about a reform, the Banking Bill is an excellent example of how to go about...