Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...actors on the stage-which they, in hypersensitive hauteur, sometimes distrust. As soon as the curtain rose on Jules Remain's "intellectual farce," in France already a minor classic, they knew what to expect. Had usually able Director Richard Boleslavsky made it seem less like a pillow fight, they would have been delighted with this bumptious but bitterly satiric story of a scalawag physician who buys a country practice and makes it pay huge profits on the principle that, if people think they are healthy, it is merely because they don't know what ails them...
...love and its accompanying delights, he finds that Salami has already appropriated the most lovely ladies. Enraged, he longs to meet his rival and give him a beating. He does not, however, discover the identity of Salami until this wayward character, traveling incognito, has worsted him in a street fight for which both are put in jail...
...very little. He plays his floor shots with a delicate, excessive turn of the wrist that cuts the ball down sharply over the low looping net. Jay Gould called his floor shots "invincible." Soutar, running around, breathing hard, scored his points to the dedans and grille, made his best fight in the seventh game, then lost three games in succession, the match, and the title...
...bright green bathrobe with a golden harp between the shoulderblades, Jimmy McLarnin, lightweight, climbed into a roped square in Madison Square Garden. After one minute and forty-seven seconds of fighting he climbed out again onto the shoulders of yelling spectators. Alone in the ring with his handlers, a curly-headed Jew, Sidney Terris ("Pride of the Ghetto"), came slowly back to consciousness, asked what had happened, and began to cry. A single short right to the jaw had finished him. McLarnin, boxing sensation of the season, is matched to fight loafing Lightweight-Champion Samuel Mandell in June...
...stadium at Highbury where Aston Villa was going to play soccer against Woolwich Arsenal in the afternoon. When the turnstiles opened at 12 o'clock the line was a mile long. An hour later the gates closed, since the stadium was full, and the crowd outside began to fight. A hundred men were hurt. Women who fainted were passed back over the heads of the mob to the ambulance men working in the rear. Inside, Arsenal beat Aston Villa 4 to 1. The players were unhurt...