Word: chins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Niceto Alcala Zamora y Torres. Provisional President of Spain, scratched his unshaven chin and shook his rumpled hair at a group of reporters last week...
...return match with Billy Petrolic of Fargo, N. Dak., who gave Canzoneri a good pre-championship drubbing. He was also supposed to be afraid of Jackie Berg, holder of the junior welterweight title, a Britisher noted for his courage, his windmill style, his ability to block punches with his chin. In Chicago last week, Berg and Canzoneri climbed into a ring, shook hands and started work, Canzoneri boxing nicely and Berg, short-armed and unable to land his dangerous, awkward swings, performing his specialty of chin-blocking. For two rounds Canzoneri handed out punishment. At the start of the third...
...lights, one never loses the suspicion that his manager, Robert Arm- strong, an athletic young man who looks something like Jack Sharkey, could slap him over anytime for no purse. Absurdities include a gymnasium shot in which a training fighter swings wildly at his spar- ring partner's chin for several minutes in an effort to knock him out; Armstrong playing solitaire on a table set up on the floor of the gymnasium; fighters wearing their bathrobes on the scales while weigh- ing in; Ayres, after having won a fight, talking into a microphone which is held several feet away...
...Author. Thomas Stanley Matthews, 30, has a chin that sticks out from under a nose, eye and brow that might have belonged to St. Paul, patron saint of his preparatory school (Concord, N. H.). Whittling little verses hard as black walnuts is an old pastime of his. Once he wrote...
...Lawson '32 finished second, Allis of Yale third, and Barmack of C. C. N. Y. fourth. In the epee bouts Shellard of M. I. T. carried off first place by winning eight times. The other qualifiers in this class were Thompson of Yale, K. R. Ludiam '33, and Chin of Yale...