Word: fighter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Daniel Hertz is keen, amiable, modest but, in a business tussle, a ferocious fighter. It bothers him not a whit that on a polo field in his heavy tortoise-shell spectacles, with his helmet snugly strapped under his big chin, and seated in a curious grey, woolly saddle, he cuts a strange figure. When he misses a shot, which is often, he always shouts...
...Stalin is an irreconcilable fighter" says the Soviet Encyclopaedia "for solidarity and Bolshevist policy against all opportunism and reconciliation...
...must demand a return to the heroic conception of Jesus," clarioned Dr. Krause, "not as a God enthroned to be conceived dogmatically, but as a fearless fighter and leader."* The meeting enthusiastically adopted a resolution supporting Dr. Krause's reforms...
...GIMLET EYE: ADVENTURES OF SMEDLEY D. BUTLER-as told to Lowell Thomas-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.75). Now that Major-General Smedley Darlington Butler has retired, the U. S. Marine Corps is not so often in the news. Few soldiers have been more tanned by the limelight. A fighter who enjoys his reputation, General Butler started scrapping early in life and has continued to fight it out on that line, letting the news stories fall where they may. With the help of Ghost-Writer Lowell Thomas he has laid all his scraps end to end, called it a life. Born a Pennsylvania...
...hard-muscled New Yorker named Ben Jeby, who in all his fights showed much more courage than finesse. Last week in New York Jeby had his first chance to defend his championship against a really high-grade opponent. Barrel-chested Lou Brouillard, of Worcester, Mass., much the same type fighter except that he is lefthanded, came running out of his corner in the first round and planted two lefts on a chin that Jeby's previous opponents have found impervious to punishment. Jeby backed away and clinched. By the end of the round, Brouillard was breathing hard but Jeby...