Word: fistfighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...death in the snow. '"The Return" tells how a man came back to his home town years later, and how he was glad to run away from it the same night. In "The Fight" two respectable, middle-aged cousins who have never liked each other finally have the fistfight they should have got out of their systems when they were boys. Having given and received a black eye, a bloody nose, they part in silent enmity. "John thought his cousin Alfred never had been very nice. He hoped the punches he had got in on Alfred's body...
President Strotz was chagrined when Madison Square Garden, with connivance from its Chicago allies, euchred him out of the Schmeling-Stribling world's title fistfight contract (TIME, Jan. 26). But he and his up-&-doing backers-who include his smiling, big stockbroking brother Harold-vow not soon again to be outsmarted by the Easterners. If their circus battle with John Ringling in Chicago goes over, they may carry that fight to other cities, may send a circus through the land some of the proceeds from which will find their way back to the lawns of Lake Forest...