Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, rich U. S. slacker now living in Germany, offered to buy the monoplane. Mr. Bergdoll let it be known that he desires to fly to the U. S. to show that he is no coward, that conscientious objection was his only reason for refusing to fight in the World...
...only grandson was killed in action during the year 1917. He and very many other young men of our nation were not at any time "too proud to fight...
Soon a Royalist-Communist free fight with canes and hurtled rocks began. Because the office of L'Action Française is near the Station St. Lazare, many an arriving tourist thought that revolution had broken out in France. At last police reserves separated the combatants-though not until some 20 civilians and 10 policemen had received major bruises. All the while Editor Daudet stood at the window of his office, cheering on the "Camelots" hurling such epithets as "Pig-men! Assassins! Red-Snouters! Bandits! Jelly-Bellies!" at the Communists...
Born. To George L. ("Tex") Rickard, fight promoter, and to Mrs. Maxine Hodges Rickard, onetime Chicago actress; a daughter; in Manhattan...
James Joseph Tunney, champion fisticuffer, reading the newspapers last week, came upon a great mockery. A Tunney, his second cousin William, had been beaten insensible in a fair Manhattan fist fight. William Tunney had squared off at Policeman Paul Smith; Officer Smith had hit William, once...