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...Cambridge, it is said, and one of the most bibulous who punched Herr Engel in the left cheek. Herr Engel, resentful, struck his assailant with his cane. Both men picked up chairs but Herr Engel was able to parry only three of the legs, receiving from the fourth a gash across the eye. Herr Engel, it appears, threw the truck-driver under the table and although his assailent was withdrawn from the restaurant without further trouble by some of his more sober friends, Herr Engel vows he will bring charges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Account of Herr Engel's Windfall Leads to Attack by Truck Driver--Feud Started in 1917 | 2/28/1925 | See Source »

...towel- soggy, bloodstained, ragged-sailed over the top rope of the fight ring in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. Sock! it landed on the canvas, right at the heels of a battered little man with a streaming gash over his right eye. The little man was rocking to and fro under showers of blows from a furious, compact human whirlwind that flew now at his head, now at his ribs, now at his jaw, now at his pounding heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Kaplan | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

Borrowing a friend's automobile, he bucks traffic at Philadelphia's busiest corner. Result: one broken arm for a traffic officer, one damaged trolley car, one bent automobile, one gash on the brow for the showoff, one fine of $1,000 for his relatives to pay. "That's the law for you!" he comments. Reverses of fortune and a good lecture from a sister-in-law render him unabashed. At the end the author makes the show-off partly instrumental in bringing a fortune to the family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Feb. 18, 1924 | 2/18/1924 | See Source »

...fight began, it was apparent that the Argentine artillery would bother Brennan. Wherever Firpo's right landed the surrounding territory shuddered. In the fifth round the American launched a counter attack which opened a deep gash over Firpo's right eye. And for the rest of the fight the South American was streaked in heavy crimson. A blow to the base of the skull in the twelfth finally sent Brennan to rest at Firpo's feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Firpo Bests Brennan | 3/17/1923 | See Source »

...game was unusually rough at times, White '19 receiving a severe gash on the forehead from a collision with Fox of Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN SEVEN BEAT YALE | 2/21/1916 | See Source »

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