Word: fistic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boxing. The Velodrome D'Hiver in Paris housed pandemonium as different national flags were hoisted to herald fistic victories. Knockouts being infrequent, room was found for argument over the judges' decisions. Ultimately, the Nations had to be content with this point total, mainly determined by second and third places: United States 38; Great Britain 30; Denmark 20; Argentina 18; Belgium 17; Norway 14; France 7; Canada 7; Italy, Holland, Sweden, each...
...essential that the tenor shall be either a very young and poor man who gets the girl at last, or else a very wild and rich rake who eventually receives what is known in ring parlance as the raspberry. The American public would not tolerate any of its fistic heroes in the latter unflattering light. And the American public could not conceivably believe in the verisimilitude of the first role. For none in America ever heard of a poor young boxer...
...with bootlegging. "Bill" Brennan, aged 31, became famed when he stood up to Jack Dempsey at Madison Square Garden for 12 rounds in 1920, a feat which he repeated against Luis Angel Firgo at the same place last year. He was, however, never considered a front-ranker in the fistic world and retired after his disastrous fight last Fall with "Billy" Miske (now dead), when he was knocked out in the fourth round...
...were transported to Manhattan. They and their chaperones were housed on an entire floor of the Waldorf-Astoria. They were taken in a fleet of taxicabs to see the Acting Mayor. They were paraded, with three bands, up Fifth avenue. Then, in Madison Square Garden, famed scene of great fistic encounters, the 88 beauties assembled for the Mineralava Valentino Beauty Contest, afterwards known as The National Beauty Contest, while Valentino picked...
Despite his age and extensive experience not strictly pugilistic, Jack Johnson proved his assertions that he is still prominent among fistic black oxen by tying Luis Angel Firpo, Argentine skull cracker, in a flock of knots in a "workout" match in New York, prior to Firpo's successful encounter with Bill Brennan...