Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Idaho's furrow-featured Senator William Edgar Borah is 74. At a Washington, D. C. luncheon, North Dakota's Senator Gerald Nye told Mrs. Borah he was pleased to see his colleague looking so fit for the neutrality fight (see p. 11). Said Mrs. Borah: "I told him so, too. I said to him, 'Bill, you look like Clark Gable.' And he said, 'Who's Clark Gable...
...Jitters and An Air Raid Shelter for Two. But soon they were back at digging Chamberlain in the ribs and blasting England's slowpoke policy on the Western Front. Said a "communiqué": "It is officially stated that British troops have arrived in France and have agreed to fight on the same side as the French. A formula is being prepared." Began a song...
...Sage's James Laurence Meader (an exception): "England and France . . . have the right to expect every type of service we are capable of rendering short of sending an expeditionary army. . . . [We must come] to their active assistance at once rather than wait until we find it necessary to fight Hitler and all that he stands for single-handed...
...watch him defend his title in a 20-round bout against smart, nimble Bob Pastor, onetime New York University footballer with a fair-to-middling boxing record, 34,000 fight fans poured into Detroit's Briggs Stadium, paid up to $27.50 a seat. They saw what they expected to see. Fleet-footed Pastor-whose only claim to the challenger's role was the fact that he once lasted ten rounds against Louis-did the turkey trot, Lindy hop, chassé and Suzi-Q to keep out of the champion's waltzing range. Fleet-fisted Louis toppled...
Because Pastor lasted ten rounds (and in the eighth actually peppered Louis with punches) many fight fans belittled the Negro's talents. Said Pastor's manager, James Joy Johnston: "It took Louis 21 rounds to knock out Pastor-ten in New York [1937] and eleven in Detroit." But the majority of fair-minded fans, aware that Louis had set up such a high pugilistic standard that for him anything short of a one-round knockout was a big black demerit, applauded his prowess. In 43 professional fights-since the night in 1934 when he got $50 for knocking...