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...England where she played in a dozen successes, settled in a luxurious little house in Farm Street, drove a flashing green Bentley. She was publicly and privately idolized by enthusiastic followers who took her for the personification of Sex. Last year Miss Bankhead came home to act in a featherweight thing called Forsaking All Others. As her present vehicle, Dark Victory won no critical nominations for the Pulitzer Prize, but audiences stood up and shouted their admiration for an authentic exhibition of oldtime theatrical glamour. Nothing like it had been seen since Jeanne Eagels died...
While the exact Harvard lineup was still in doubt after yesterday's practice, it seemed likely that Captain Eddie Loughlin, the Crimson's featherweight hurler, would go to the firing line against the Scarlet and White. In the event that Samborski elects to hold Loughlin in reserve for the hard-hitting Friars of Provi- dence College, Paul deGive, who showed fine promise in the closing stages of the 1933 season, probably will get the call...
Although no title was at stake, Eiigio Sardinias y Montalvo ("Kid Chocolate'') took his fight with Tony Canzoneri last week so seriously that he actually trained properly instead of indulging in what his manager calls "bad things." He was anxious to graduate from the featherweight class, of which he is champion, because he has trouble keeping his weight down, because there is not enough money in it. To get a match with the lightweight champion, Chicago's shifty Barney Ross he had first to whip savage little Canzoneri, the onetime champion whom Ross deposed last June...
...might be puzzled if you were to pick up this piece of intentionally featherweight fiction and, opening by chance to page 125, read the following sentences from the beginning of paragraph three...
Eligio Sardinias y Montalvo ("Kid Chocolate"), generally acknowledged featherweight champion of the world, is a wiry, knob-fisted Cuban Negro whose quick, malicious dexterity makes him one of the most exciting fighters in the world to watch. His opponent in Manhattan last week was a serious little Englishman, Seaman Tom Watson, who acquired a strange flat-footed technique by learning to box on the heaving deck of a battleship. The best featherweight in Europe, he began to commute to the U. S. for fights last autumn, returning after each one to tend the Newcastle bar which he bought...