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Word: foule (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...combination of the seventh column and a blessed event at the Trojan Horse's have made your reviewer feel very sheepish this morning. For it is only by some foul treachery that Andre Kostalonetz's first records for the new Green Seal Columbia could have turned out as badly as they...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 5/31/1940 | See Source »

...Blarney stone-not in New York, but in Dublin on St. Patrick's Day. In 1928. still smarter, he snitched Max Schmeling from the German manager who had brought him to the U. S., publicized him as the "German Dempsey," and, by storming into the ring and yelling "Foul" when Jack Sharkey hit Schmeling a questionably low blow, is generally credited with winning the world's heavyweight championship for Schmeling in 1930. Five years ago, Jacobs got hold of hog-fat, washed-up Tony Galento, ballyhooed him into a national celebrity, into the position of No. 1 challenger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: We Wuz Robbed | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

Refereeing a wrestling match in Atlanta, Jack Dempsey several times warned Wrestler Cowboy Lutrell against rough tactics, finally awarded the match to his opponent on a foul. Indignant Lutrell took a poke at Dempsey, and Prize Fighter Dempsey, long out of training, went into action, nailed him with a hard punch, drove him to the ropes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 6, 1940 | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

Under such conditions sea battle was bound to be diffuse. In the usual foul weather up & down the Scandinavian coast, the first problem of Britain's Navy was to find the enemy, to avoid his mines and submarines, to brush aside his air craft and come to grips, here, there, anywhere with detachments of the German Fleet and its convoys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Royal Navy's Test | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

Also Showing The Human Monster (Monogram). Repeated discovery of corpses on the mud flats of the Thames River causes Scotland Yard to suspect foul play. Proving it onvolves Inspector Holt (Hugh Williams), Dr. Orloff (Bela Lugosi) and Diana Stuart (Greta Gynt) in some routine Edgar Wallace blood-chilling in a mysterious home for blind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 1, 1940 | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

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