Word: fight
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Long had bad blood brewed between strikers and police. Strikers, ejected from company homes, pitched a tent colony on the outskirts of town. On the night of June 7 Chief of Police Orville F. Aderholt had gone to this colony where a disturbance threatened. In the dark a fight started. Chief Aderholt was killed, three other peace officers wounded. Fifty persons were arrested. The 16 defendants before Judge Barnhill were those charged with the murder...
...roaring crowd at the new crimson- seated Chicago Stadium saw a notable fight. Tired by last minute weight-making tortures,* for two rounds Champion Mandell barely kept his feet as Brooklyn's Tony Canzoneri, tough challenger, rushed and slashed, came close to rocking Rockford's sheik to sleep. Then class told and Tony Canzoneri found himself taking many a left jab, many a deft hook, on the chin, on flattened nose, in his lean torso. Baffled but vicious, the Italian continued his savage rushes. To "Long Count" Dave Barry, referee, they looked convincing. But not so convincing to the ringside...
...Fight for Matterhorn (German). Knowing that audiences all over the world have been bored by faked scenes illustrating the perils of Alpine mountaineering, the producers of The Fight for Matterhorn did not dare to let their fly-like heroes start up the icy ledges until they had roped them together with a story. The anecdote they devised is a silly one about two men who were racing to see which of them could get up Matterhorn first, and how one suspected the other of wanting his wife. Hollywood scenarists could have got out something much better, but no Hollywood company...
...with the Harris fame came no fortune. The open Enquirer-Sun got few new subscribers, sometimes lost many old ones. One thousand subscriptions were cancelled after the initial Klan-basting. Fighting a fight where other Georgia papers feared to follow, the Enquirer-Sun never grew above 7,000 circulation, often went to many less. Mr. & Mrs. Harris stood alone...
...separate cells he stole to her one night, to find the long separation had made her a stranger, convent-grey and dull, while for him, a man, the four years' con- finement among books had served to unshackle his mind. Nevertheless, he passed up his chance of escape to fight, as their own lawyer, for reversal of his death sentence, for her freedom and separation from her husband...