Word: freaked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week freak-fenestration's pioneer, Saks Fifth Avenue, was at it again. This time the artist who furnished the in spiration was Henri Rousseau, the little French baggage inspector whose quaint, ingeniously primitive jungle pictures (painted on his Sundays off at the Zoo in the Jardin des Plantes) awed pre-war Paris...
...time he had won six in a row, New York managers sat up and took notice. Two months ago, when he knocked out Tippy Larkin in one round at Madison Square Garden for his tenth successive victory, knowing New York fight fans became aware of the latest pugilistic freak: a hollow-cheeked, sunken-eyed 132-pounder, with the legs of a flyweight, the shoulders of a lightweight, the forearms of a middleweight. Somewhere in those forearms there was an arsenal of TNT. Seven of his opponents in a row had fallen like tenpins...
Last week, on We, the People, Sanka Coffee's Tuesday-night odditorium of the air, Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis and his freak-style opponent of last fortnight, Arturo Godoy from Chile, faced each other anew. Joe said fighting Godoy had been just like "sittin' in a big easy chair, restin'." Arturo boasted that after "the fight he still had enough left to step-'but with his wife and "just go do little rumba." Back home, said Godoy to Joe and his radio audience (about 7,000,000), he had big brothers, "good fighters...