Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In the eighth round Max Schmeling suddenly pulled himself together and went to work. Mickey Walker was smacked to the canvas for a count of nine, then for a count of six. His mouth protector was slapped right into Schmeling's corner. The referee picked it up, awarded the...
Mr. Wynn, whose real name is Israel Edwin Leopold, prides himself on being what he calls a "method comedian" rather than a "gag comedian." He never tells an off-color or race story, does not sing or dance. He buys some of his jokes from the Broadway "gag" factories, but...
In a fishing village which the Vagabond remembers, the streets are cobble-stoned, and the old houses have iron gates. A wind comes up from Spain, and shakes the elm trees on Main Street until the cobbles are buried in leaves. They are falling now, for Autumn comes early there...
In the lot were 800 copies of William Powell Frith's famed "Railway Station." Old Graves gravers, sniffing at modern art prices, remember that this heavily varnished canvas was the artistic sensation of 1862. Royal Academician Frith sold the picture outright for $22,500 and received another $3,750...
In the regular corrida six bulls are killed (20 minutes to a bull) by three matadors working alternately with their own subordinate team of picadors and banderilleros. When the bull first comes in he is played by banderillero and matador with capes. Then the mounted picadors enter, the bull charges...