Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...looming "small navy" filibuster was abandoned but the "small navy" men declared they would fight to reduce the number of cruisers, to eliminate the time clause which provides that five cruisers a year be laid down annually for the next three years...
James Cannon Jr., many years ago, pinned upon his mother's breast her only jewel (the white emblem of Prohibition) and laid her to rest and dedicated his life to her battle against alcohol. No mean gen eral, he could fight on two fronts, upward in the church, onward against politicians. Both battles culminated last year in un qualified personal victory. In politics, he undermined the Byrd better-government organization in Virginia, which endorsed the Wet Smith, and put the State in the Republican columns. For this activity he was declared last week to be the man who had done...
...comes you come over and get me or I'll come over and get you and we'll go and sit at his table. Then you ask me something about how's my reading or do I know a good summer job or who's going to win the fight tonight...
...fortnight, the prizefight business in which he had become famed was courteously conceded to be an honorable one. Actually, it is not. So much Author March knows about the background against which he versifies the story of a colored boxer whose managers took pay to have him lose a fight, and who, not aware of this arrangement, won the fight, and was then murdered for winning...
About writing verse, Author March knows more than he knows about the fight racket. His descriptions beat with journalistic rhythms and, if somewhat banal, his pictures are graphic and exciting...