Word: gloved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Institute unmask its batteries. Last week before 1,200 powermen assembled at Atlantic City for the Institute's third annual meeting, President Thomas Nesbitt McCarter uprose to keynote: "If the Government persists in its attitude, it is up to the industry to fight for its life. The kid-glove stage has passed...
When a Sicilian wants to duel, he neither presents his card nor flips his glove in his enemy's face. Instead, he bites his opponent's ear. Enacting the role of Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana at Manhattan's Hippodrome last week, Tenor Sidney Raynor's bite went wild. He missed Baritone Rocco Pandiscio's ear, took a painful nip out of the Pandiscio cheek. Peace was made over the bandaging backstage. Later in the evening Baritone Pandiscio went onstage with his round jowl swathed. He played his next role heartily, the doleful clown in Pagliacci...
...Pullman (Wash.) after J. L. Blalock had showed off before an auction crowd by stepping up to a bull and knocking him silly with a right to the jaw, police charged Blalock with wearing brass knuckles under his glove...
Interested spectators at this domestic duel are the Shales's suburban neighbors, a footloose wife and her browbeaten husband (A. E. Matthews). Good indeed is Actor Matthews' gloomy soliloquy on the virtues of the all-electric house he lives in, while pulling off & on a glove, a minute and abstracted gesture which somehow makes hugely eloquent his character's total dimwittedness...
...which cinched their close 4 1/2-3 1/2 win over the Yale yearlings. Some of the best boxing of the afternoon was demonstrated by Captain Dwight Ellis, who fought at a handicap against Jones, a taller man. Holding his left low, he guarded effectively with his shoulder and his right glove, and connected enough wide hooks to win the decision...