Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Afterwards, demanding a match with the winner of the Louis-Schmeling fight next September, irrepressible Max boasted: "I didn't quit, did I? I had to redeem myself and I did. Did Louis have Farr on the floor?* Did Braddock?* Well, Papa Baer...
Last summer the Serbian Orthodox Church had a fight on its hands. Yugoslavia's Premier Milan Stoyadinovich and his Cabinet negotiated a concordat with the Vatican which would virtually have placed the Roman Catholic Church on equal terms with the well-entrenched...
Meantime the names of two others, Bacteriologist Paul de Kruif (Microbe Hunters) and Novelist Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms) were accounted as working editors. But de Kruif had plenty on his hands helping Franklin Roosevelt fight poliomyelitis, and Hemingway spent almost all of Ken's, eleven months' gestation visiting the war in Spain. Home from Spain and somewhat alarmed when friends pointed out to him that a Manhattan gossip sheetster had called Ken a "liberal-phoney," Hemingway asked Publisher Smart to explain in the first issue (on a page with Hemingway's story about Italian battalions...
...Attorney General's office snapped, "We won't fight over the body." Dick Whitney surrendered, was booked at the Elizabeth St. police-station while a group of Bowery derelicts were momentarily herded from the desk. After the prisoner had been searched, Desk Lieutenant Simon P. Breen remarked as though one of the neighborhood boys had gone wrong: "Mr. Whitney, I'm sorry to see you in this trouble and wish you luck...
...doubtful pleasure of seeing these two second-raters in last week's "grudge fight" at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, 18,222 hopeful customers paid $74,409.22. To their surprise they got their money's worth. Few heavyweight fights in recent years have brought forth so much wholehearted socking, done so much visible damage (see cut). It was Baer's lusty right against Farr's jabbing left. The Welshman landed oftener-and occasionally with a right that really bothered Baer-but when the former champion let loose, he came very near to ruining Farr...