Word: frogging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan last week, a crowd of 18,000 jammed Madison Square Garden to watch two hard-hitting little lightweights scuffle for the world championship which Champion Barney Ross last month decided he had grown too heavy to defend. One was stocky, frog-faced Tony Canzoneri, who held the title for three years before losing it to Ross two years ago. The other was Lou Ambers of Herkimer, N. Y., a tough, courageous little boxer who was" Canzoneri's sparring partner in 1933. Said Canzoneri: "You've got what it takes to become a champion...
...Roiderer, then teaching English in Munich, the fact that he is a naturalized U. S. citizen did not prevent his being clapped into a Munich jail, charged with "high treason" to the Fatherland. Efforts by the U. S. Consul General to have access to Roiderer were met with frog-faced assertions that the German Ministry of Justice itself did not know where he was. Realmleader Hitler has set above the German Supreme Court his own death-dealing Volksgerricht, and occasionally someone's head gets chopped off before the fact is known to other than a few Nazi bigwigs. That...
...What kind of a frog is that?" inquired Newshawk O'Reilly...
Well aware that Dr. Noble in his time had observed countless thousands of frogs, O'Reilly rushed back to his office, returned to the Museum with his paper's crack photographer, William Zerbe.* While Zerbe took pictures of the albino frog, O'Reilly listened more carefully to Dr. Noble's explanation of the prodigy than he did to the scientist's indulgent prediction that the public would find the creature of little interest...
Next morning the Herald Tribune carried the story on the front page, printed the frog's picture. The creature was an immediate sensation. Reporters and cameramen from, other papers bore down on the Museum in swarms. Although it was a female and Dr. Noble pointed out the obvious fact that it was not white but a pale, faintly rosy yellow, the Press named the frog "Whitey." Picture services dispatched Whitey's likeness throughout the U. S. by airplane, started it across the Atlantic...