Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In Washington, D. C. last week Boston's Wrestler Jack Donovan squeezed Chicago's Mike Romano in a scissors, ground him with a headlock, whirled him in an airplane spin, thumped him on the canvas, let go when the referee patted his back, jumped up to acknowledge the...
Bewildered, Mrs. Joe Louis, sitting beside Author Carl Van Vechten, fainted dead away. Almost equally astonished, the rest of the crowd set up an angry roar. It continued, a disappointed and monotonous chant, until, in the twelfth round, long since dazed by the steady, systematic pounding of Schmeling's...
The Plateau States did better. Notable was Colorado's able Frank Mechau who showed a fine big canvas of seven running horses, four of them without ears (TIME, March 2).
Clouded in secrecy are the sessions of the Academy's Hanging Committee, which meets behind a screen, looks at the pictures and sculptures held up by aproned "carpenters" and indicates to the chairman whether to hold up the cardboard letter X for Rejected, A for Accepted or D for...
Again & again the past three weeks a twin-motored Boeing 247-D transport took off from Oakland airport, circled lazily in the California sun, came in swiftly to a perfect landing. Each time the pilot, who could see nothing outside because canvas covered the windows, ignored wheel and rudder bar...