Word: brawls
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Driving with his wife and sister, Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur noted a brawl along a highway near Washington, D. C. He leaped from his car, sprinted to the scene of action, separated three Negro caddies of the Congressional Club. But his arrival was too late to prevent the fracturing of one little Negro's skull by a bigger Negro with a stick. Secretary Wilbur rushed the injured lad to the Congressional Club for medical attention...
From such lowly origin he rose through military apprenticeship under Andrew Jackson, six months' law study and admission to the bar, governorship of Texas, championship of the Indians, and national notoriety gained by a brawl with a Senator, to generalship of the Texan army, 800 strong. For Texas had at last revolted against the duplicity of the Mexican government...
...dead man's things, now a decent coat, now a stout pair of boots. Tortured by this necessity, Johnny broods over his ropes and ring, croons the ugly details to a fascinated small son, demonstrating with a grotesque rag doll on a miniature scaffold. In a drunken brawl at the inn Johnny champions a slattern, more unfortunate even than himself, befriends her, loves her, kills her jealous brute of a husband. She is convicted of the murder, and Johnny hangs her, dooming himself to tragedy...
...Show Down. Two toughened adventurers annoyed and battled with each other all over the world until at last they clamped together in the heat and sog of the tropics. The cause of the final brawl is Evelyn Brent. In a sodden camp on a Latin American oil field, four men gaze hotly at her. One is George Bancroft, alternately brute & gentleman, star of this affair. He hulks, and moralizes, fights, and suffers to no profit...
...last week death came to banker John J. Mitchell, and to Mrs. Mitchell. They were driving in an open motor car from their country home at Lake Geneva, Ill., to Chicago for the funeral of their elder daughter's father-in-law, when their machine met a roadside brawl. Two motor cars, going in opposite directions had tried to pass a hay wagon at the same time. Both cars went into a ditch; the drivers jumped clear and fell to words and fisticuffs. The haywagon stopped as did several machines. Their drivers wanted to see the "fun" and crowded...