Word: fidel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mosquito was Fidel La Barba, one time flyweight (112 lb. or under) champion of the world. A student at Stanford, he wants to go into real estate business. Among books he has read and liked are the Outline of History by H. G. Wells, Round Up by Ring Lardner. Among maga-zines he likes and reads is Variety...
Bantamweight: Fidel La Barba, California...
...Leland Stanford University has two new scientific buildings-the Guggenheim aerodynamics laboratory, the seismological station. In its entering class is Fidel La Barba, retired flyweight champion of the world...
...Scotsman, Elky Clark, and a young Italian, Fidel La Barba, flyweight champion of the world, fought last week in Madison Square Garden. In the first round Clark went down for a count of nine. He recuperated and got through the second. In the third he went down for seven, got up, went down again, got up, went down again. The bell rang. He walked to his corner. After each minute of rest between rounds he came out as if a new day had dawned for him after a good night's sleep. At the end of the fight...
...preconceptions of Spain are inextricably confused with the crackle of castanets and the present vogue in Spanish shawls are faced with fearful disappointment. The tragedy of the play is quite unrelieved; it is almost Russian. The plot depicts the domestic chaos consequent upon the return from the wars of Fidel and his attempted seduction of his sister-in-law. His brother, her husband, finally slips a knife into Fidel's left ventricle. The acting is inadequate despite the presence of the more or less heralded Nance O'Neil. The single satisfactory feature is the farmhouse setting...