Word: fracases
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three of Mississippi's nine Democratic electors suddenly announced that they would cast their votes for Harry Byrd, fourth was ready to follow suit. And it was too late, apparently, to do anything much about it. While there was yet time (before September 7), New Dealers had not put...
First reports of the fracas definitely identified only one participant. He was Lieut. Randolph Dickins Jr., of Bradenton, Fla., 6 ft. 2 in., a hero of the Battle of Midway, who had been a combat-fatigue patient at the Navy's Bethesda for ten weeks, after 42 months'...
The Harvard lineup for tomorrow's game will be the same as in last week's Brown fracas, with the possible insertion of Bob Capaccio, Freshman outfielder for the B team, who has been doing exceptional hitting in practice games this week and who will travel with the Varsity.
A fracas ensued when outfielder Boston slid hard into second base on what might have been an easy double play. Boston came up swinging and took several punches at the second baseman. The Camp Thomas team then joined in the fight and a general free-for-all resulted.
Whistling in Brooklyn (M.G.M.). Whistle in Brooklyn, and sooner or later a Dodger will turn up. They all turn up toward the climax of this melocomic fracas, in which Red Skelton clowns around in House-of-David-style false whiskers in order to warn a police inspector that the trusted...