Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only on the floor where their quips get into the newspapers. Foremost of these is LaGuardia of New York, an irregular Republican, the smartest, most industrious gadfly. He knows parliamentary practice and can tie the House in knots with his motions and points of order. He rarely wins a fight but he always puts on a good show and his clever arguments attract considerable backing...
...Senate Judiciary Committee was thoroughly disgusted with Justice Jennings Bailey. If the Bailey theory of quorums is right, "95 per cent of all State and national legislation would be nullified," said Senator Norris. "All the legislatures in the civilized world operate without physical quorums. Unless there was a fight on the Judge [Bailey] himself, he probably was not confirmed by a quorum and therefore, under his interpretation, he is not a judge...
...most interesting works is a roll of pictures 13 feet long showing various scenes in the gathering of people to a prize fight. The roll is probably unique and is one of Cruikshank's early works. On display in the same case is a book complete with illustrations of the fight between Crib and Molineux and titled "The Battle" This was done about...
...third round, Brignola knocked a false tooth from Britton's mouth. Therefore Jack Britton drove Brignola to the ropes and kept him there with feints and clinches, ordering the referee to find his tooth and keep it. When the referee had found his tooth, Jack Britton laughed and the fight went on until...
...going to fight again, Jack?" reporters asked him. "No," said Dempsey, as usual. Later he admitted that he might fight famed Paulino Uzcudun next June, for a guarantee...