Word: carnera
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Public attention was diverted by the appearance of Boxer Carnera in the ring, his huge Venetian tummy modestly covered by a straining, skintight singlet purchased at a nearby haberdashery...
Announced to appear in a four round exhibition bout was gigantic Primo Carnera, seven-foot Italian fisticuffer (TIME...
...downstairs dressing room Boxer Carnera flexed his bulging muscles and glowered while an embarrassed manager explained the longstanding British rule that all boxers at amateur bouts must be clothed above the waist...
...Bacco!" swore Boxer Carnera, "I have never fought in an undershirt and I never will...
...much longer. They put a row of thick struts under it to make it bear twice a normal sleeper's weight. The White Star Line took these precautions, not because it had accepted an elephant as a first class passenger, but because a prospective passenger named Primo Carnera is proportioned like the giants of myth. Passenger Camera, an Italian pugilist, planned his trip to the U. S. as a business venture. He felt that he ought to make money in a country where the biggest man who ever held the heavyweight championship (Jess Willard) was only...