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...story: a Jewish boy (John Garfield) of New York's Lower East Side, short on money and long on push, graduates from the amateur fighter class and travels fast. The faster he travels, the dirtier the racket gets. He is disgusted, but in his vanity and his desire for money he rationalizes about the general ugliness of the ringside business, and thus alienates his mother (Anne Revere) and his sweetheart (Lilli Palmer). He agrees to throw his last fight before retiring, but recovers his integrity in time, whales hell out of his opponent and wins back Miss Palmer...
Never have I been in a dirtier, plainer big city than Memphis. And never have I read such phony kowtowing to that city and to Boss Crump as that which appeared in your May 27 issue...
...William's whole life fell apart after the trial. Lady Wilde stood by him, but he lost interest in his profession, "became dirtier, uglier, more abrupt" as time went on. He still saw occasional patients: once, unable to find an eye dropper when he was ready to put some lotion in a child's eye, he angrily grabbed a pen from his desk, flicked the lotion in, permanently scarring the eyeball. Dr. Wilson notes that his decline was probably hastened by physical causes as well as mental anguish. It was a steady decline; the end came...
...next night, and the next, the sirens sounded for light, hit-& -run raids. On the fifth night the heavy bombers came once more in force, planted new fires beside the old. Berliners were wearier, dirtier, grimmer as they worked to clear up the damage. Men were unshaven for lack of water. Food stores were closing down...
...Swinburne on Emerson: "A gap-toothed and hoary-headed ape, carried at first into notice on the shoulder of Carlyle, who now in his dotage spits and chatters from a dirtier perch of his own . . . fouling...