Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ring. Referee Arthur Donovan mumbled orders in the centre of the ring, the fighters moved back to their corners, and the bell clanged. Both came out in a crouch, eyed each other for a moment. Then Thomas cracked Schmeling with a tentative left, first blow of an uncommonly bloody fight...
Schmeling continued to fight in his cool, planned style, moving faster and landing oftener in each successive round. In the fifth, Schmeling was behind on points and finally let loose his right. It caught Thomas clean on the chin, and Schmeling blinked. Thomas did not go down. He sailed in, hitting Schmeling with left hooks that purpled his face and body. Schmeling stepped his pace up a notch...
...again. Schmeling confidently turned to a neutral corner, but at the count of "One," Thomas was up after him. Schmeling slugged him again, and again he arose at "One." Four more times he went down under Max Schmeling's famed "Sunday punch," and each time rose ready to fight. The crowd, sickened by the sight, screamed "Stop it, stop it." Referee Donovan stepped between the two and beckoned Schmeling to a neutral corner...
...emphasized that the scientists needed about a year to prepare for another such fight. "Now apparatus must be added and old apparatus must be redesigned," he said...
...almost funny at times. Edna May Oliver stretches her face to unprecedented longitudinal dimensions, Maureen O'Sullivan glides along in a manner that is just too, too demure, and the audience seemed to enjoy themselves in a mild way. "Dear Miss Aldrich" tells the tale of a girl's fight for recognition in a newspaper man's world; it is not recommended for consumption, unless the reader is feeling in a particularly receptive mood