Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little while ago Battling Nelson went to the movies, and saw a picture of the fight. When the show was over, he went to steal the film. He had been licked once- that was enough. Nobody was going to have the chance again of seeing him staggering stupidly around a ring with blood dripping out of both eyes...
...Wolgast has not forgotten that fight either. He lives on the Pacific Coast with friends, ring figures of 20 years ago. Every morning he begins to spar. Pretty soon he thinks he will have to meet another champion. In the bright sun, he dances around a shadow ducking, weaving, driving his long arms to hit a body that is not there. He has invented a new punch to use in his next championship bout...
...late last week for every 200 Nicaraguans. There is approximately one soldier in the U. S. army for every 1,000 U. S. citizens. Therefore the number of U. S. marines in Nicaragua is proportionately as great as though the U. S. had sent half its entire army to fight a nation equal in population to the U. S. But, by repeated definition, the U. S. was not at war with Nicaragua; and, indeed, no Nicaraguan dared to shoot a U. S. marine. Developments. Besides pouring 1,600 more marines into Nicaragua, last week, until a total...
...mail-clad mammal, order Edentata, family Dasypodidae, native to Central and South American plains and forests. The largest species reaches one yard in length. Nocturnal, omnivorous, armadillos do not fight but burrow rapidly or roll up into bony balls when attacked. Armadillos lately came to fame in the U. S., when one was presented to President Coolidge. The little known fact then came to light that the armadillo has young in litters of four, all of the same sex, be it male or female...
...house, was set upon, dragged into an automobile by four men, stripped, punched, flogged and pitched into a ditch on the outskirts of town. Secretary Margaret Parlow and other "Thinkers" were threatened. Miss Parlow put a revolver in her large vanity bag and said: "I'm ready to fight...