Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...South America is being Americanized rapidly. Now on the other hand, it is very sad to see how the States are becoming South Americanized more rapidly than we are becoming Americanized. To wit, some weeks ago two Senators insulted each other and proceeded to have a regular fist fight within the precincts of the Senate. Again, during elections in Chicago, "pineapples exploded" and fights at the polling booths were plentiful. Can you get anything more South American than this two items? We used to do that before we started our Americanization...
Science helped settle the Muscle Shoals question by making obsolescent that process of fertilizer manufacture which requires water power to make the nitrates. Nebraska's Norris, who fought the farmers' fight in the Senate, wound up by admitting that Muscle Shoals fertilizer would probably not be cheap enough. The measure he pressed and got passed last winter dealt chiefly with Muscle Shoals water power, leaving the Department of Agriculture to experiment with fertilizer as a byproduct. The Senate voted for Government operation when persuaded that a Power Lobby had gone to extreme lengths to oppose...
...could do not better than go on defending queer men, among them, two pale, sadistic murderers and a country school teacher. Big Bill Haywood took advantage of his fame. He organized the I. W. W. "We are the roughneck gang," he said. When the War came he refused to fight...
Died. Thomas Henry ("Old Tom") Tibbles, 87, famed Civil War fighter, circuit rider and onetime (1904) candidate for the vice presidency of the U. S.; at Omaha, Neb. Hanged before he was 16 by members of Raider Quantrill's band, he was cut down by friends, lived to fight with John Brown, to edit the Omaha World-Herald, to marry three wives, one of them Princess Bright Eyes, original of Longfellow's Minnehaha...
...corner to win it now. On the cherubic face of Harp-wearer McLarnin he dropped jabs that soon closed an eye, caused bumps to rise and blood to trickle. Nervy to the last gong, Harp-wearer McLarnin chased Champion Mandell, who beat him backing up, retained the title. This fight had been postponed twice because of rain, and Champion Mandell had to do some last-minute sweating to make the weight when the sky and Promoter Tex Rickard finally agreed...