Word: fighter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concerning the resignation of Cadet Cagle from West Point much has already been said. The moral issues involved have been discussed and Cagle has been denounced for violating army integrity and praised for being a rampant fighter and gambler who could not be held in. It probably all rolls off Cagle's shoulders. Did he ever intend to go in the army...
...flashy two-round bout with a light heavy named Tony Stabenau which is undoubtedly the best piece of fighting ever done in a revue. Best shot: an old gag from silent pictures in which, after taking a blow on the jaw in a farce bout with a fighter not mentioned on the program, Comedian Joe E. Brown bounces across the ring from one set of ropes to the other as though each set were a catapult...
...Mayo Clinic. Forty-seven years ago this summer Rochester was a leveled mass of ruins; a tornado had twisted its base, uprooted it. William Worrell Mayo, country doctor, Indian fighter, took charge of patching up the scores of injured people in the small town. His boys helped...
...burlesque is far more successful than the elaborate cabaret scenes, or that expected moment when the star, discovering that the man for whom she has sacrificed everything, whom she has made successful, has be trayed her, sings alone and downcast a ballad of unrequited loyalty. As the fighter whom she coaxes out of a cabaret and into a gymnasium, Robert Armstrong, who makes a specialty of playing stupid fight ers, gets several laughs. Best shot: the big fight between Armstrong and McCloskey, when Fannie Brice yells to McCloskey to hit her onetime sweetheart on his re modelled nose...
...Smart Set (1914-23) with Critic George Jean Nathan; of The American Mercury (1924). Said Nathan of Mencken: "I respect him, and am his friend, because he is one of the very few Americans I know who is entirely free of cheapness, toadyism and hypocrisy. . . . He is the best fighter I have ever met. And he is the fairest, the cleanest, and the most relentless." Delighting to shock, Iconoclast Mencken was once shocked himself: by Author James Joyce's Ulysses (TIME, Feb. 17). Some of his other books: Ventures into Verse, Damn-a Book of Calumny, Prejudices (six series...