Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...admitted that he had won a mickle battle, forging from behind to the top of the press of contestants with daring-do worthy of a new champion. Sturdy Gene Sarazen, leader of the first day's match stepped forward, as did swart Johnny Farrell, ahead the second day, to shake the hand of wee Macdonald Smith, final victor on the third day, in the Canadian Open Golf Tournament last week. Came then the departing champion, nervous Leo Diegel, followed by many another Yankee guest and Canadian host, howbeit the latter had retained for themselves for best but seventh place...
...gentleman from Idaho suggests that we are awed by Al Smith's shadow. To a gentleman who has just come from the Democratic and dry States, looking forward tremulously to 1928, the shadow of Gov. Smith may seem large and fearful, but . . . here in New York we Republicans are fully prepared to take care of Al Smith, shadow and all this fall...
...member howbeit the most infirm, interrupted his indignant thoughts, by retorting through his white moustaches and militant beard: "Yes, and the whole bunch of us may be alive and kicking around for years. We'd better trust to luck and see how the weather is." And he jedked forward suddenly, impatient with his greyhaired unsoldierlike companions...
Pyramids. What might be considered by the forward-looking the first play of the new season was not very good. It dealt with a handsome wife whose husband stole to buy her pretty clothes. Whereupon he was clapped firmly into jail and she went to live with the villain in the vain hope that his wealthy influence would liberate the unselfish sinner...
Last week in Brooklyn he gave Jack Delaney a return match-15 rounds to a decision. The cold eyes glinted slow malice; the pale, hairy body moved forward, paused, swayed, moved forward. In the fifth round one of Delaney's whizzing fists dropped Berlenbach to one knee. Berlenbach arose and moved forward with Delaney dancing in and out and more fists whizzing, now to Berlenbach's crushed nose, now to his gloomy mouth, now to his heaving midriff. None of Berlenbach's long, stiff blows were steered anywhere near dancing Delaney. At the end, the referee...