Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...polls and for the second time in four-years, administered a drubbing to Tammany. In doing so they accomplished what was perhaps the neatest political trick of the season, for the results of the primary gave a broad hint that Mayor LaGuardia, conqueror of Tammany, will have the political fight of his life on Election...
...Grant, whom he disposed of in straight sets at Wimbledon this year, took him to five furious sets in the quarterfinals. After the semifinals, in which Budge blasted his Davis Cup teammate, Frank Parker, off one court, and von Cramm had to overcome a discouraging two-set lead to fight his way past 19-year-old Robert Riggs on another, the Budge-von Cramm match was assured but it hardly promised to be great...
Meantime both sides settled down to a finish fight. Paramount and Max Fleischer continued to ignore the strikers as best they could; the strikers continued to picket Max Fleischer's studio, singing their own words to a well-known tune...
...fight to the finish 'cause we likes our spinach...
Last week New York's Bishop William Thomas Manning, who faces a convention fight if his rigid ideas on marriage and divorce are to prevail over those of churchmen who would liberalize Episcopal canons, let loose a blast at the C. L. I. D. program. He wrote to Episcopal journals (one of which, The Churchman, declined to print his words and editorially questioned his ethics in giving his letter simultaneously to the daily press): "The C. L. I. D. is ... militantly partisan and radical. ... It is evident that these meetings are not for judicial consideration, or for social education...