Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...near Florida's capital, Tallahassee. Last week he mounted a Tallahassee bandstand and began an anti-Smith speech. He touched upon Roman Catholicism. Whizzz-smack went an egg. Mr. Catts continued. Whizzz-smack went many eggs. Mr. Catts stopped talking. Irate, he left the bandstand, offered to fight any man in the crowd in single combat, offered a reward for the apprehension of his eggers...
...Fight. The first audiences at The Big Fight were composed in large part of dapper and gruesome characters who in no way resembled the admirers of Gene Tunney. It is claimed that among the good qualities of its star, famed Pugilist Jack Dempsey, is the ability to remember persons who "remember him when...
...fighter with a crooked manager; he loves a brunette who, because her brother is in the power of a bad gambler, agrees for his sake to put catnip in the champion's water-bottle so that the gambler may be assured in advance who will win the big fight. The audience, on the other hand, knows that no catnip or other poison can hamper Champ Jack Dillon in the performance of his art. The last scene shows the fight itself. Dempsey throws his hands around more wildly than he does in an off-stage ring but there are moments...
...been arranged. Open house will be held at the Harvard Union and a special wire has been strung to enable listeners to secure the election results. Neal O'Hara '15, of the Boston Herald, has promised his services as announcer. At 12 o'clock pictures of the Tunney-Heeney fight will be shown and refreshments are to be served...
...clock, according to officers of the recently formed organization. The speakers at this meeting will be Powers Hapgood '21, A. S. Coolidge '15, and Lincoln Fairley '23, Hapgood, who is the husband of the Socialist candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, was active last year in the fight to save the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti and has taken prominent part in the recent struggles of the United Mine Workers of America to prevent a wage-cut in the soft coal fields...