Word: firpo
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...Saratoga Springs, N. Y., visitors at white frame house called "Casa Firpo" discovered its gigantic, morose, hirsute inmate, Louis Firpo, seated on the front porch sipping draughts of tea. That beverage was the Argentine Bull Man's recipe for the hard muscles he will need in Newark on Sept. 11 when he flings himself upon Harry Wills, huge black, in a fistic engagement that promises to become historic for its violence...
...inside a great pinewood saucer, patching, prinking and tidying. They were employed by the saucer's lessee, Promoter Rickard. He expects tens of thousands of customers to go and sit in it on Sept. 11 to see 425 pounds, of humanity in violent gyration-Harry Wills and Bull Firpo...
...Ellis Island, N. Y., the Japanese team, en route from France to play Canada, was detained, Firpo-like, for passport discrepancies, released on parole telephonically from Washington...
...Luis Angel Firpo, strong of fist but somewhat weak of English, went to Washington for a visit. He saw Arlington Cemetery, and the Pan-American Building. His car then drove up to the White House Office building. He was announced, and the President ordered him admitted. The immense man walked into the President's room. Mr. Coolidge shook hands and throwing back his head looked up at Firpo. "Well," drawled Mr. Coolidge, "you certainly look all that your records have made us imagine...
...Firpo stood on one foot, then on the other, but no words came. At last he was ushered out. Some press despatches reported that he had asked his interpreter as he went out, "Who is that man?" This is hard to believe. Firpo is partly sublingual in English, but he is not completely subnormal in mentality...