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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "MR. TUNNEY IN CARD TRICKS" | 12/2/1926 | See Source »

Seed of the Brute-Reviewed this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Nov. 15, 1926 | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

...wailed his wife, rushing into the bathroom, "are a brute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sweetest | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...good in themselves, as representatives of that lump which American intelligence and native wit must eventually leaven, together they have the power of brute force, coupled with complete dulness--and that force--though like the carnivorous dinosaur, its one time proponent, it eventually die, can, like the name carnivorous dinosaur, cause a lot of trouble. One hopes then, and with all sincerity that Tunney will like a good Marine, defend his country against mental eclipse by refraining from establishing a precedent which could well mean the beginning of the Ivory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXIT INTELLIGENCE | 10/13/1926 | See Source »

...powerful brute that "you can drive right through hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Sep. 20, 1926 | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

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