Word: fighter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...previous histrionic efforts Joe has been successively, a high jumper, five day bike rider, clown, prize fighter, acrobat, and tractor operator. Now, assisted by Carol Hughes, he overcomes his fear of horses the bold way. In short the usual Brown formula is followed. A timid soul, he pretends to great prowess on the ponies, and what you imagine would happen does, and in a big way. This is among Joe Brown's funnier pictures, and the supporting cast, headed by the redoubtable Skeets Gallagher and the aforesaid Miss Hughes, who is attractive, in a hard, metallic way, bet still...
...Collaborators Lewis & Moffitt wisely created some new incidents on which to prop the play. One of them shows Corpo troops going from house to house to break radio tubes because Senator Trowbridge is broadcasting news of Corpo atrocities from Canada. In the novel, Doremus Jessup was a tough-fibred fighter for the Liberal cause. In the play, he is a pitiable dodderer who fails to realize what is happening until his son-in-law is murdered. It is his spinster friend, Lorinda Pike, who spots the Corpo invasion from afar. Jessup's love affair with her is played down...
...remained at ease with tough woodsmen and trappers. In 1808 he married a pretty, well-born English girl, soon after failed at a variety of business ventures in New York City, Louisville, Henderson, Ky. He could do sleight-of-hand tricks, was a dead shot and a good fighter, claimed Daniel Boone as his friend. Wandering down the Mississippi after his Kentucky failures, he painted portraits, taught, was at the lowest point of discouragement when the cultivated Pirrie family befriended him, provided his career with its turning point...
Upon the unhappy Earl of Plymouth jumped both Prince Otto von Bismarck, the German Charge d'Affaires, and Italian Ambassador Dino Grandi, a fierce and scathing fighter in debate. With concentrated sarcasm Signer Grandi asked Comrade Cahan why, if Russia was so strong for non-intervention in Spain, she did not protest the British planes sold to Madrid, the British ships running guns to Spanish Reds, and the British fighting with the Red Militia, as well as the open encouragement to Spanish radicals given by such British members of Parliament as Laborite William Dobbie. This belaboring of Comrade Cahan...
Since the days when its left-handed Lew Tendler used to fight Lightweight Champion Benny Leonard so regularly that the names of the two fighters sounded like the title of a corporation, Philadelphia has always had at least one first-rate functioning fighter of one sort or another. Tendler, now a 180-lb. restaurateur, is the manager of Philadelphia's latest pugilistic hope, a large blond Italian named Al Ettore. Without fighting much outside his home town, Ettore had by last summer managed to get enough local following to justify a bout with famed Joe Louis, who is trying...