Word: fisted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Legion Stadium to see some boxing matches stepped jaunty, garrulous Walter Winchell, gossip colyumist for the New York Mirror. Up from his ringside seat jumped Mammy-Singer Al Jolson, whose big-eyed wife, Ruby Keeler, had started to whimper at the sight of Winchell. Smack went Jolson's fist and down went Winchell. Smack went Jolson's other fist and down went Wrinchell again. After other spectators, including a woman who wielded her sharp-heeled slipper, had driven Jolson off, word buzzed through the excited audience that Ruby Keeler was upset because Winchell's new scenario, Broadway...
...Music Department of Harvard, will give a pianoforte recital on Wednesday evening, August 2, at 8 o'clock in the Music Building. Josephine B. Bates, violinist, will assist. The program will consist of Sonata in F Major by Handel, Second Sonata, opus 18 by Faure, and Sonata in E Fist, opus 12, number 3 by Beethoven...
...Life of Jimmy Dolan (Warner) concerns principally a rowdy, champagne-guzzling prize-fighter (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) who kills a reporter with a blow of his fist on the night that he wins the light heavyweight championship of the world. His manager, running away in the fighter's car, gets burned to death in an accident; his charred corpse is mistaken for the fighter's. This gives the fighter a chance to change his name from Jimmy Dolan to Jack Daugherty. He wanders out West as a hobo until he comes to a happy little farm where a girl...
...Representative Charles Isaiah Faddis came home to his Washington apartment he opened the door on a young burglar. The burglar pointed a pistol at Representative Faddis, told him in a rich Southern accent to put up his hands. Faddis took one step forward, swung his fist against the burglar's jaw, knocking him down, jarring him loose from his pistol. Mr. Faddis then called police who took the young man, one Clarence Roberts, 17, to the hospital...
...getting a half-hour "beat" on the story's climax- the discovery of Baby Lindbergh's body. Best Cartoon-to Harold Morton Talburt of Scripps-Howard's Washington Daily News, $500 for his cartoon entitled "The Light of Asia." It showed a brawny fist, labeled Japan, clutching a crumpled sheaf of papers which blazed like a torch. It was marked: "Nine Power Treaty- Kellogg Pact." Cartoonist Talburt, one-time Toledo soda-jerker, is a Scripps-Howard ace. Oldtime Editor Negley D. Cochran who developed him says: "Some of us write editorials and are called editors; Talburt draws...