Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Muskegon, Mich., John Kuzon, 41, confessed to striking his wife with a hammer after she had accused him of killing her pet lamb. "Later I went to the basement to sleep," he said, "and she crawled over to me and put her head on my chest and said, 'O. daddy, love me.' I told her to get away." John Kuzon then went out and dug a five foot grave in his hen coop. "I went back to the house and got my wife. She wanted to know where I was taking her. I told her I was going...
Lightweight fighters were lavish last week with gore and sincerity. Goriest, most sincere was an encore in the Chicago Stadium of the unforgettable meeting two months ago in New York between Christopher ("Bat") Battalino and Billy ("Fargo Express") Petrolle, whose right hand is a trip-hammer (TIME, April...
Battalino advanced as usual at the bell, his flat face screwed up ready for pain. He walked in at a crouch close to Petrolle with his hands up beside his ears, then suddenly cut loose with both hands, wide open. Coldly, Petrolle stabbed him with trip-hammer rights, straight lefts, and backed away. Crouching again, Battalino sprang after him, savagely knocked Petrolle down with another torrent of blows. Petrolle is one of the ring's sagest fighters. He knelt till the count of nine, stalled for more time by wiping the resin off his gloves on the referee...
...balance the budget by simply passing this tax bill. We must take up the question of stabilizing prices. The gold dollar is no longer an honest dollar. How many suicides must we register, how many insane must we put into asylums, how many farms must go under the hammer before we do something to stabilize our currency...
Events today will reduce the field in the University events to six qualifiers in the discus, shot put, hammer throw, broad jump, and javelin, to semi-finalists in the sprints and hurdles, and to finalists in the 440 and 880-yard runs. The same will be true of Freshman events, with the exception of the weights, which will be run off today. The final events will take place tomorrow...