Word: firpo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lose, I was glad it was to Jack Dempsey." Replied Dempsey: "It was you fellows who made me." From France came Georges Carpentier, a dandy of 63, who plugged not only Dempsey but his own Paris restaurant. From the Argentine came Luis Angel Firpo, 62, once the Wild Bull of the Pampas, now a lumbering giant whose dignity shone somehow through his confusion with the alien nonsense around him. Gene Tunney, anticlimactically absent, sent a message of homage to "the noblest Roman of them all." In turn, Dempsey thought that Tunney was a fine fellow and a great champion, "regardless...
...trouble was not in such modern old masters as Max Weber, the late Lyonel Feininger (see MILESTONES) and Marsden Hartley, who to British eyes were only American reflections of European trends. And in Edward Hopper's lonely city scenes and George Bellows' Dempsey and Firpo, the Sunday Times found "the real rude stuff of native American art." The pained cries of angry outrage were provoked by the abstract expressionists...
...contributions along with old favorites. Goya was a bullring aficionado. Winslow Homer, while covering the Civil War, took time out to paint Zouaves pitching quoits in camp. Philadelphia's Thomas Eakins painted scullers and wrestlers; George Bellows not only haunted the fight ring painting boxing classics (Dempsey and Firpo), but also painted tennis at Newport and polo at Lakewood. In Ground Swell, Edward Hopper caught every yachtsman's thrill at passing the last buoy and heading seaward in a light breeze...
...told 600 Hoosier Republican leaders that he had noticed a letdown in G.O.P. spirits since the 1952 landslide. He was reminded of Luis Angel Firpo, the South American heavyweight, and Firpo's bout with Jack Dempsey in 1923. Said Ike: "In the first round he knocked Dempsey so far out into the audience that he broke two or three typewriters for the newspapermen. But Dempsey crawled back in the ring and whipped the tar out of him. Now, I don't think the Republican Party has any idea of being a Firpo...
...first visit to the Argentine, where he was greeted by President Juan Perón (in whose honor, as "the world's first sportsman," a boxing festival was being staged) and an old ring foe, Argentina's Luis Angel ("The Wild Bull of the Pampas") Firpo. Argentines have always believed that Firpo, who lost the 1923 fight by a k.o. in the second round after Dempsey knocked him down nine times, really won it in the first, when he smashed Dempsey clean through the ropes. Gracious Guest Dempsey made the Peronistas exuberant by agreeing. Said...