Word: gamecocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exclamation point that gives it the look of an Italian war cry, Fiorello! matches up with La Guardia, telling the story of New York City's Little Flower from the time he first ran for Congress until his second and successful bid for mayor. The irascibly humane fighting gamecock, whose career, as a matter of fact, has something of the air of a war cry, displays in the theater, as he did on the platform, a naturally theatrical personality. The period through which he moves (about 1916 to 1933) has a persistently gaudy glamour. And out of a dynamic...
Died. Beniamino Gigli, 67, famed lyric tenor, an Italian shoemaker's son who took over Caruso's roles at the Metropolitan Opera in 1920, sang and acted with a peasant's gusto ("as naturally as a gamecock fights"); of pneumonia; in Rome. Refusing to take a salary cut during the Depression (other Met stars did), Gigli huffed off to Mussolini's Italy, predicted "something like a civil war" for the U.S. (he later denied it all), sang for top Germans during the war ("What would you have done?"). In a triumphant 1955 return...
...California court, Tyrus Raymond ("The Georgia Peach") Cobb, 68, always a crusty gamecock on the baseball diamond, faced a $50,000 personal injuries suit slapped on him by Elbert D. Felts, oldtime Pacific Coast Leaguer, ex-hunting companion and ex-friend of Cobb's. Felts claimed that Cobb, outraged because he had been stuck with a dinner check, attacked him and aggravated an old back injury. The jury, though not exactly swayed by Ty's plea of self-defense (he has had two heart attacks), decided that Felts's injuries did not merit payment of damages, voted...
Ever since Gigli replaced Caruso as the Metropolitan Opera's star tenor in 1920, audiences have applauded him less for artfulness than for artlessness. He sang and acted with his peasant's gusto-"with the whole force of his body," one critic wrote, "as naturally as a gamecock fights." Vocal style usually went out the window when he saw a chance to prolong a honeyed mezza voce, a thundering high B-flat, a sob, a gulp or a tearful portamento...
...Salas exulted again & again for the benefit of the radio & television audience: "I ween the chompanship of Mexico!" After being reminded that he was now world champion, Salas amended his boast by a preposition: "I ween the chompanship for Mexico!" Then, for almost two solid hours, the unskilled little gamecock refused to settle down. Instead, he strutted up & down through the arena's crowded aisles, sopping up the adulation, embracing and kissing anyone within reach of his stubby arms. He wanted to tell the whole world how he became the first Mexican fighter ever to win an undisputed world...