Word: defending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jack Kearns, manager for Dempsey: " Jack Dempsey will defend his title any time and any place against either Willard, Firpo or Wills. It is a case of first come, first served." Benito Mussolini, in a telegram to Ermino Spalla, an Italian, when Spalla won the European heavyweight championship from Vandeveer, a Dutchman: " I embrace you. Now prepare yourself for the supreme trial. Having become champion of Europe, you must become champion of the world...
...cauliflower ear, characteristic flora of the prize ring, is withering away. Careful inspection of the three champions now training to defend their titles within the month- Jack Dempsey against Tom Gibbons, Johnny Kilbane against Eugene Criqui, Jimmy Wilde against Pancho Villa-reveals that none show the effects of auricular horticulture. Further research into the personal appearances of the six other ring champions discloses only one cauliflower ear. It is attached to the head of Johnny Dundee. A cauliflower ear is the ridged, mushroom-like appendage that remains after years of unfriendly massage by the fists of opposing pugilists. Its modern...
...which gathers the highest point total. Medals will be given to the place winners in each of the events which will be contested, while the victorious school will receive a shield for permanent possession, and a cup, which it holds during the year of its championship, and then must defend in the next meeting...
...invasion by Germany. At Versailles the United States and Britain were to have made a treaty with her promising aid in the case of unprovoked attack by her Teuton neighbor. This treaty, as all the world knows, was never concluded, and France was left out in the cold to defend herself. She decided that the occupation of the Ruhr was the best way of doing it, for in no other way could she get the protection she needed. The main issue that will have to be solved when negotiations commence is the demilitarization of the Rhine and possibly the Ruhr...
Charges against Herr Hugo Stinnes of having aided the recent depreciation in the mark for his own gain, stirred up public and official criticism to such an extent that he was forced to defend himself publicly in the Reichstag...