Word: fighters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Greasy with sweat, a fighter slumped in his corner. To the tense manager muttering instructions in his ear he snarled helplessly. Newspapermen in the fringe of harsh white light around the ringside heard the manager snarl something about "quitter." The fisticuffer, despairing, defiant, jumped to his short legs and went through the mill. Panting, pounding, suffering, he hammered the hard little man dancing a short arm's length away. Twice he struck below the belt and was harshly called by the referee. Even he kept the battle, head jarred, hands jabbing. After a swirling fifteenth round the bell jangled...
HIGH GROUND ? Jonathan Brooks ? Bobbs Merrill ($2). Liberally educated in all the finer shades of political corruption, U. S. newsreaders have a ready sympathetic throb for the lone graft fighter. To Author Brooks such a figure looms so large that he ventures to draw the picture of an upstanding, small-city editor with solemn, biblical strokes. James Andrew Marvin, lonely Honest Man, is presented through the reverent chronicles of his five children (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and Ruth). He emerges hard-hitting, high-minded, bad-tempered. Fighting heavily, with more goodwill than technique, he is defeated time...
Geniuses FIGHTERS OF FATE-J. Arthur Myers-Williams & Wilkins ($3). Author Myers has selected 24 distinguished hosts to the bacillus of tuberculosis, living and dead, and retold the story of their lives, in detail where their struggle with the disease is concerned. Paganini is first. Then comes Schiller. Then Bichat. A gloomy procession which marched (bravely and blindly) before the day of Koch and his discovery, before modern science had tamed the scourge. Gradually the light dawns. The last fighter depicted is Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, fruitful and saved. The author disbelieves in the theory that tuberculosis produces...
...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...
...before eleven strikers and spectators were killed and many a trooper and civilian was stoned or clubbed. Bitter and bloody as the strike was, it brought wisdom to all steel employers and eventual benefits to the employes. In the battle Mr. Schwab had been a hard-bitten fighter for the Carnegie Steel Co.; in the peace his natural bonhomie won the goodwill of returned employes...