Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON representative watched various near-great boxers punching the bag or each other, while men in all walks of life entered Kelley and Hayes' Gymnasium at $.25 a head of watch them. Sharkey returned to tape his hands and went on to give his opinion of the Dempsey-Tunney fight at Chicago. "If it hadn't been for the knockdown in the seventh round there wouldn't have been any fight at all. But I think that Tunney could have gotten up on the count of three." (in the seventh round Dempsey had protested a long count over the prostrate...
...Bureaucrats" though they are called, shore admirals have been sea admirals. "Jingoes" though they are called, sea admirals do not want war. They, better than most people, know what it is like. They, sooner than others, must fight it. Blunt professionals, they demand serviceable instruments with which to do their duty when it becomes necessary. Permanent public servants, their philosophy is at bottom the working philosophy of the U. S. Navy, no matter how Congresses and Administrations help or hinder its expression...
...apartment in the world. Located in Manhattan, it will include 41 rooms, 16 baths, John Markle, servants, and many pieces of old, expensive furniture. Famed for his manners and mustache, both rough and blunt, Mr. Markle once said that he was successful in finance because "I'd rather fight than eat." Asked what he planned to do with his 41 rooms, Mr. Markle replied: "It's nobody's damn business...
Perhaps Secretary Mellon is right in this defense, but there is an angle of the question, which he has overlooked. Would the stalwart sailors fight at all for their dear ones at home (considering the dear ones in other ports) if those dear ones were deprived of their invaluable cosmetics? Or, contrarywise, would the women of the United States sacrifice their face powder to the lesser cause of gunpowder...
...Navy Department that $740,000,000 is an inordinate sum to spend on battleships; so perhaps it is advisable not to try to remedy either case. In a large navy we give the women something to powder for, and in the beautiful women the navy something to fight...