Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...labeled "Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men." At the end of August he drew a telling picture called "The Big Bout to Date"?an enormous prize-ring in which two tiny pugilists (the two Parties) threatened each other with furious futility from opposite corners. The crowd was yelling: "Fight! G'wan, fight...
...professional partner in a dancehall. Like the heroine in that play called Night Hostess, she maintains a nominal chastity?"she walks home alone"?but teases sailors out of gifts and dance tickets. Of one breezy gob she becomes enamoured and over her he starts a free-for-all fight. No peace-lover, his past record is against him when he is arrested. Unless he comes out of this scrape, he will be court-martialed...
Other arrangements for election night include music by the Harvardians Orchestra and motion pictures of the Tunney-Heeney fight are to be shown...
...champiawn. . . ." A little fellow to be proclaimed in so huge a voice, he bowed gaily to the audience and hopped out of the ring, the world's featherweight champion. His name was Andre Routis; he had just completed 15 rounds of infighting against spry Tony Canzoneri. Frenchmen fight with their feet, it is said; but Routis had held his elbows pointed in front of him and his gloves near his ears as he moved in to claw Canzoneri's belly. Canzoneri, after winning the first rounds, had been gradually gutted in this routisserie; a game fighter...
...FIGHT-A chance to see Jack Dempsey in a mediocre play (TIME...