Word: fracases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The favorite pastime of Steamship Magnate Bruce Vail (Colin Clive) is tormenting his wife (Jean Arthur). When she threatens to put an end to his diversion by divorce, he sends his chauffeur (Ivan Lebedeff) to her rooms, plans to trap her in the servant's arms, nullifying the divorce...
Fast and furious was the fracas between Tech's mustachioed Menendez and Ben Wood in the 175 pound class. A hard overhand right smash gave Wood a KO in the first stanza, putting the score at three and one half all.
General Motors assembly lines were rolling again last week, but the North Chicago fracas furnished spectacular proof that the greatest issue raised by the Motor War of 1937 was still far from settled. As a disturber of U. S. peace, the Sit-Down Strike had just begun to fight. In...
"It may be necessary for me to go to Detroit," said Madam Secretary Perkins, looking anxiously down her nose. Cause of her anxiety was an all-night fracas between police and strikers in the General Motors strike at Flint, Mich, which had sent a score of casualties to the hospital...
Mr. Rand "merely laughed," continued Mr. Bergoff, and explained that everything was fine because he had been inside the plant taking motion pictures of the fracas, which he intended to offer as proof of strikers' violence in seeking an injunction against the strike.