Word: brute
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sole boast to uniqueness that this combat might have had is in the characters of the principals. One was touted--to the death--as a student prince; the other made an odd comeback to popularity by emphasizing those qualities which once made him an unpopular champion--brute force and a marvelous thickness of skin as regards what the public had to say concerning him. The gentlemen met before, in Philadelphia, and each would have been much happier were the other dear charmer away. Their second encounter proved more interesting, in its preliminary bombast, than the first; due to the burst...
Each of these big men boasted he would batter the other unconscious and each?though Sharkey had been coached to check his "killer" instinct and weary Dempsey by skillful boxing?reverted quickly and satisfactorily to the brute soon after the first gong sounded...
...camels. Finally, one of these missed his footing and went sprawling among the boulders, his long legs waving madly to and fro. We couldn't stop, for our would-be visitors were now only a few hundred yards behind, but, looking back a moment later, I saw the poor brute get to its feet and lumber along after...
...Marines turned, as champions and ex-champions always have turned, to the vaudeville stage where he was scheduled to give "fistic exhibitions". But when he attempted to appear the first night, at one of the Loew palaces in New York, he was arrested for breaking a statute against boxing. Brute strength had to yield to respect for legal restrictions and the philosopher of the gloves was forced to remain off-stage, though not without cutting remarks on law in general...
Seed of the Brute-Reviewed this week...