Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fight is for national defense. . . . I expect no reward, except the consciousness that I am helping my country...
...Lexington speech approximate the tenor of the Harlem address. That was when Congressman De Priest cried: "I occupy a serious position in America. The eyes of the civilized world are on Oscar De Priest. I have received more publicity than any other member of Congress. I will continue to fight for Negroes' rights in Congress and use bathrooms, barber shops and restaurants [at the Capitol] whether my colleagues like...
Aged 41, became national secretary of the Episcopal Church Temperance Society. He was a vigorous Prohibitor and claimed to speak for the entire Church. No Churchman contradicted him strenuously. His Society purported to fight intemperance in drinking, drug-taking, eating...
Without the scowl but with butchery in heart, Meat-Dresser Campolo last week met in a Brooklyn fight ring the recurrent Thomas Heeney of Australia, who since his battle with onetime Champion Tunney has been married, grown fat, taken maulings in two of his three fights. The prodigious Campolo, dominating Heeney half a foot in height, 20 pounds in weight, many inches in reach,* needed no glower to terrorize. Undaunted, Heeney charged the massive Argentine, belted him soundingly, won several early rounds. Frequently Campolo turned his head, spat nervously, was biffed. Then in round eight, Campolo unloosed a right uppercut...
Gratifying to Promoter Humbert J. Fugazy was this demonstration of his South American hopeful's ferocity. In that ghostly company of world's heavyweight championship contenders Campolo takes a place not more than two removes from Germany's potent Max Schmeling. About 20,000 saw the fight in Brooklyn. In Buenos Aires 50,000 volatile Latins lined the Avenida de Mayo reading round by round results flashed on bulletin boards in front of the newspapers La Prensa and La Critica. Afterward, ecstatic, they sang, cheered, paraded the streets until midnight. One man who did not parade...