Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gong rings; Mike staggers to his corner, weary, bleeding. Through the ropes springs Mike's marcelled second with water-bucket, sponge, bottle, towel. Mike rests for a short minute while motherly hands wash red from his eyes and mouth, fan his wilting torso. Mike hears calm, sage advice delivered in a motherly tone. Again the gong rings and Mike's second, agile in spite of skirts, leaps back through the ropes. Mike, cheered, comforted, charges forth to battle...
...Henry H. Rogers, Manhattan sportsman-oilman, father of famed Millicent Rogers, Countess Salm von Hoogstraten: "Word came in from Long Island that a shipbuilder at Greenport is building me an all-electric yacht, 62 ft. long with a 14-ft. beam, which I will christen Fan Keva. She will have three 175-h.p. electric motors, electric piano, electric winches, galley, siren...
...Sidney Smith, Gump progenitor, is a speed fan (automobiles...
Every football fan in the middle west believes that the leading Conference teams could win at least six out of ten games from Yale, Harvard or Princeton, as they believe they could in the long run from Pennsylvania, Cornell, Dartmouth, the Army of the Navy. But a few more intersectional games would add a lot of spice to any football season. The Big Ten Weekly
...first heat of his love for Josephine, Napoleon wrote: "I am waiting for you. I am wholly filled with you. Sweet, incomparable Josephine ... I find calm when I give myself up to my passion, that on your lips, at your heart, I may fan the flames which burn...