Word: catch-as-catch-can
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...Randora" is what we use," explained Corbeil. "That means 'free play, catch-as-catch-can. It's nothing but Angle-Saxon wrestling with a ritual...
...Manhattan, Heavyweight Contender Tommy ("Hurricane") Jackson swirled into the center of the ring and ran head on into a squall of right hooks thrown by Cuban Heavyweight Champion Nino Valdes. Knocked down twice in the second round and floored a third time by some catch-as-catch-can wrestling, Hurricane lost...
...Drew a Woman . . ." The Inside Struggle is too full of dated political catch-as-catch-can to make consistently interesting reading, but thanks to the Ickes bluntness, there are small rewards scattered throughout. At a dinner for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, "I drew a woman who is a spiritual and physical offense to me ... I suppose that she must be about 60 years old. . . She clutched my arm and drew me close to her steaming and opulent form." Ickes got out of talking to her by pretending he was deaf in his left ear. Of F.D.R...
...director, he is forced to work at a pace and in a catch-as-catch-can manner reminiscent of the early days of silent pictures. Where major studios do well to dub sound on one 1,000-ft. reel of film in one day, Dragnet must finish three reels in a half-day. But Webb refuses to surrender his almost fantastic insistence on accuracy of detail in backgrounds, dialogue and mannerisms...
...year-old Spanish boy called El Galleguito (the little Galician). El Galleguito arrived in Buenos Aires last May as a stowaway aboard the liner Yapeyu, expecting to find an earthly paradise; Argentine seamen in the Spanish port of Vigo, where the boy led a catch-as-catch-can existence begging and running errands, had filled his ear with wondrous tales of their homeland. Argentine immigration authorities were not so encouraging, planned to send El Galleguito back to Spain. But a few weeks ago somebody helped him write a letter to President Juan...