Word: dulcinea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike his famed predecessor, Jack Johnson, Joe Louis has no dissipations. For amusement, he listens to the radio, buys ice-cream for his young Detroit cronies, visits cinemas with his sisters whose names are Eulalia, Emmarell, Vunies, Dulcinea. In Manhattan last week, where Harlem Negroes held church services to pray that he would win, Joe Louis was attended by four special Negro policemen for each of whom he bought a present after the fight. Before the fight, he predicted he would knock out Carnera in the fifth round. Carnera predicted he would win in the sixth. When it was over...
...driven his niece (Sidney Fox) and her ninny of a fiance to despair by selling all his possessions to buy a library of chivalric romances. He sallies forth, enters a tavern where strolling players are performing. Vastly amused, they dub him knight. He swears fealty to his Dulcinea -a tavern wench. Arousing his trusty Sancho Panza (Robey) from bed, the old knight drags him off on a career of errantry. Dreamy, hollow-eyed, grandiloquent, Don Quixote perpetually fancies he is dealing with giants or magicians. His bewildered but eager squire does his best to help and coddle the old zany...