Word: featly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd had gone to see a prize fight. More than that, they had gone to cheer a gallant little Negro: spindle-shanked, kinky-haired Henry Armstrong. Two years ago, at 25, Henry Armstrong held three world's championships (featherweight, lightweight, welterweight), a feat unmatched by any other fisticuffer, white or black. He renounced his featherweight title, lost his lightweight crown to Lou Ambers. Then, last October, after defending his welterweight championship 19 times, the little tornado, whose gameness and stamina made him one of the most extraordinary fighters of all time, lost the last of his crowns to Fritzie...
...taught the French army artillery officers how a gentleman should handle any or all of the three weapons. In 1909 he came to the United States, but he did no fencing until 1922, when he joined the New York Fencing Club. In that one year he achieved the unprecedented feat of rising from novice, to junior, to senior champion. The climax came in 1928, when he successfully defended the United States in foil at the Olympics...
...simple in outline: Joey is taken up by a Chicago society woman even harder than he is. She keeps him until she is tired of him, then gets the heel out of there. Meanwhile he has lost the affections of a nice young ingenue. Somehow the show performs the feat of making Joey an almost sympathetic character. As Joey, lean, dark Gene Kelly has a treacherous Irish charm, a sweet Irish tenor, a catlike dancing grace that makes vice almost as appealing as virtue. This impression is confirmed by Vivienne Segal as the loose Chicagoenne. More opulent than she used...
...British radio have whipped themselves over a temporary advance of a few miles. The very fact that this zone has been crossed by the British in a very short time, and by the Italians, on the previous occasion, in a shorter time still, only goes to prove that the feat can be done...
...Sixth Avenue route, four and a half years abuilding, cost $60,000,000, is the world's most expensive subway mile for mile. As an engineering feat, it is probably the most complex in railroad history. Within its short 2.2 miles, contractors burrowed under or over six other rapid transit tunnels, had to hold up the heavy overhead Sixth Avenue El (since torn down) and most of the buildings along the route with piles driven down to bed rock. The cut & cover method (trench-like excavation covered with wooden flooring) necessitated digging through a tangle of telephone cables, power...