Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Announcing the death of Life after a valiant fight, Mr. Maxwell declared: "We cannot claim, like Mr. Tunney, that we resigned our championship undefeated in our prime. But at least we hope to retire gracefully from a world still friendly...
...encouraging side. The Providence contingent was by no means a poor team, and outweighed the Jayvees almost man for man. Against this heavier opponent, Coach Art Lane was able to field a combination that waged many sustained marches and were able to keep the fight in enemy territory for the majority of the game. With the development of a few power plays with which to push over those last few yards, this outfit should develop into a scoring team before the end of the season...
Convivial George Wesley Bellows, producer of some of the greatest prize fight pictures ever painted or lithographed in the U. S., was clean-shaven, bald, dressed like a truckdriver. In his three years at Ohio State he was shortstop on the baseball team. His capacity for beer was exceeded only by that of his good crony, lusty George links. Never did a public argument arise-the shooting of Edith Cavell, lynching in the South, the hypocrisy of the Billy Sunday school of revivalists - but vivid George Bellows felt impelled to get himself and his trenchant pencil into...
...serious-minded Scot student at Glasgow University enjoys nothing more than electing a Lord Rector, when he must traditionally fight with a bag of soot for his place at the polling booth. The University's General Council of Electors never proceeds more deliberately than when it is choosing a Scot, like the late great physicist Baron Kelvin or Gladstone's successor as Prime Minister, the late Earl of Rosebery, to honor with the title of Chancellor. But Lord Rectors are only disciplinary officials, Chancellors merely figureheads. The real ruler of this great and ancient University is the Principal...
Died. Prince Alfonso Carlos Fernando José Juan Pío de Borbón y Austria-Este, 87, since 1931 the eccentric Carlist pretender to the non-existent Spanish throne, who led 14,000 troops in the last Carlist fight (1873-76) against the legitimate Bourbon monarchy; of injuries received when struck by an automobile; in Vienna. To run his shabby Vienna palace he kept a single uniformed doorman, adopted a Negro girl...