Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Levying a 25% tax on prize fight admissions of $5 or more...
...Abbes, Algeria. From that headquarters of the French Foreign Legion he can go forth a bleu, with wages of six cents per month in his pocket, and no fear of extradition. His lot will be a sandy purgatory of heat, fever, mosquitoes, mangy beasts and tribesmen foes who fight like jackals-but there will be "no questions asked". . . . Such a life attracts not only fugitives, but honest youths athirst for adventure. Such a life attracted Bennett J. Doty of Biloxi, Miss. (TIME, July 26, 1926), who served with the Legion gallantly in Syria, then deserted. He was not sentenced...
...probably would have been much happier elsewhere, but I am not to be browbeaten or persuaded by a gift of money. An Episcopal minister has the right to hold his post for life or during good behavior. Much as I regret all this publicity, it is a case of fight from...
...clippings told of brutal, better days when Griffo fought four champions, George Dixon, Kid Lavigne, Jack McAuliffe, Joe Gans. Griffo never met a better fighter except alcohol. On the day of his fight with Dixon for the featherweight championship (Griffo weighed 120) he disappeared; was snatched out of a saloon late in the afternoon; boiled out in a Turkish bath; held Dixon to a desperate draw...
Special features of the dinner will be the showing of Arthur Dane in "Rookies" and a film of the recent Dempsey-Tunney prize-fight...