Word: fighter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ruefully, Lamar explains that he planned to return to Virginia to take graduate courses in engineering, but pugilism claimed him first, and he turned professional as soon as he graduated, competing in around 40 bouts in his pro career. As a prize-fighter, he lost only one fight, and that was to Jim Maloney, of South Boston. He admits with some hesitation that instead of being called "Kid Lamar" or the "Southern Slugger," he was billed as "The Washington Schoolboy...
...trucks rest, panting with relief. John looks his grimy hands together over his head in the fighter's victory salute. Hemenway has been leveled, and boy, oh boy, didn't she make a big noise, huhl
...owners lifted their dogs into the ring and "pitted" them, rousing them to snarling fury by holding them just out of reach of each other. Finally they let them go. The lighter dog, "Red," a natural fighter, closed in fast, grabbed his older opponent by the throat, spun him, slapped him viciously to the mat, and lunged his weight on him. This Red did again & again, to the rising excitement of the spectators, who shrieked "Kill 'im Red!" "Tear 'im apart...
...Snooze') until he got too good and met the fate of all who dare make the Screwball look like what he is-a five-letter word rhyming with drowsy. After putting in a lot of research work on it, Smiley turned in a story on a prominent prize fighter, which Screwball thought too good to use in his own paper. So he held it out, sold it to a magazine and pocketed the proceeds...
Died. Newton Diehl Baker, 66, lawyer, scholar, Woodrow Wilson's peace-loving Wartime Secretary of War who organized an army of 4,000,000 men in less than two years; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Cleveland, Ohio. An early fighter for Cleveland reform and twice its mayor, he turned from trustbuster to corporation lawyer, from stanch Democrat to New Deal hater who this year helped contest TVA on behalf of power companies...