Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wheeler−"devotes himself wholly to pot-shooting. ... In a floor fight he is a total loss...
Thus the story of Journey's End. The plot itself is not nearly so involved. It is a simple war story of ten men in a dugout during 36 hours that precede a German attack. Their reactions form the basis of the play. They snarl, they laugh, they fight, they cower, they die. Standing out among them is one who hopes for death. He has drowned cowardice with whiskey. He has nothing for which to live. On the eve of the attack there is sent to his company the brother of the girl he loves−the last person...
...signed a two-year contract to promote boxing bouts with Humbert J. Fugazy. Fugazy long had been the most formidable of Rickard's rivals. He has never reached the heights, but he has threatened. In signing Dempsey he gained as an asset the most magnetic personality in the fight game today. Dempsey proved as much when he rushed into the breach upon Rickard's death and by sheer ballyhoo turned the Sharkey-Stribling bout in Florida from a certain failure into a financial success. The Dempsey-Fugazy firm will begin with a lightweight championship battle−Sammy Mandell...
...Marvine, who sat waiting in the congregation, from taking his post in the Malvern Methodist Church. That night, however, Pastor Marvine seized the pulpit, and church doors were locked against Pastor Sproule. Repulsed by guards with whom he tussled, Pastor Sproule held service in a nearby house. "I will fight it out on this line if it takes all summer," he cried. Late reports indicated that he was still fighting, and that his "spiritual filibuster" had turned into a "war." State troopers were called upon to patrol Malvern's streets when the embattled Methodist partisans became violent. A fervent...
When newspapers fought each other in the good old, bad old days, it was with edged verb and bludgeoning adjective in their editorial columns. But newspapers fight each other no longer. They now compete. Their battlegrounds are their advertising departments, their weapons statistics...