Word: ferrara
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vines by default. ¶Maxie Rosenbloom: a poorly attended, poorly contested prizefight in which he defended his light heavyweight championship against Jimmy Slattery, in Brooklyn, by slapping Slattery gently for 15 rounds between which Champion Rosenbloom chatted with his seconds about matters not pertaining to the fight. ¶Charles Ferrara, San Francisco steelworker: the National Public Links Golf Championship; beating a Long Beach, Calif., high-school sophomore, Joe Nichols, 5 & 4 in the final at St. Paul...
...Brooklyn, N. Y., Rose Provenzano, 19, jilted Ralph Ferrara, 20. He fired six shots at her (one hit her in the shoulder) and one at himself (it furrowed his scalp). She refused to sign a complaint. Said she: "I never realized how much Ralph loved me until he shot me. . . . I'm going to marry...
...League of Nations one day last week, but Cuba's holdupman was not small. Like some mighty Mutt he roared defiance at a little Jeff from Greece who sought to uphold League prestige. Surveying the somewhat comic champions, spectators beheld: in this corner tall, 175-lb. Senor Don Orestes Ferrara whose regular job is Cuban Ambassador at Washington; in that corner foxy, 135-lb. Dr. Nicolas Politis, agile Athenian word-wangler...
...This warm passage of arms has been carried far enough, gentlemen," soothed Dr. C. C. Wu, a Washington neighbor of Dr. Ferrara, for Dr. Wu is China's Minister to the U. S. "One notices that the temperature in this room is higher than the temperature outside. I move the situation closed...
...close friendship with Cuban Dictator-President Gerardo Machado, the learned judge makes a good thing of his "vacations" in Havana. The fees of his law firm swell yearly. Bluntly, this potent Cuban feels that all Hague and no play would make Antonio a dull boy?wherefore alarums by Senor Ferrara at The Hague, the haughty Spanish phrases about the right of "sovereign states" to be as bumptious as they please, the comedy of Mutt & Jeff...