Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Greb vs. Walker. Another tough little man against a tough bigger man-Michael Walker, the welterweight champion, Harry Greb, the best middleweight in the world. Both are muscled all over like pumas; both fight hardest when they are hurt. Referee Edward Purdy foresaw a difficult evening. In the first few rounds, he hovered about, breaking clinches, warily eyeing navels, while Walker slashed and bashed, uppercutted, jabberwocked and jamboureed, with the crowd roaring and Greb, never unhappy, hitting back. Referee Purdy scuttled out of the way as best he could in the next rounds, while Greb came in, his windmill arms...
...characters; 3) obtuse conversations as between one amiable dunderhead and another ; 4) childish horseplay with modern solemnities; 5) feints at coy indelicacy. If the reader at times identifies the author with his hero, that is because, in the funny business, the last, not the first, 100 years are the hardest. It is impossible to be a success at anything, even clowning, and not take one's work a trifle seriously...
...favorite movie actor, Adolphe Menjon; favorite amusement, bridge; favorite automobile, Packard; favorite style of beauty, brunette; favorite girl's name, Mary; favorite man's name, Robert; favorite color of eyes, blue; favorite cigarette, Lucky Strike; favorite cigar, Corona; favorite tobacco, Blue Boar; favorite study, history; favorite college department, English; hardest course, History 201; easiest course, Evolution; most valuable course, Biology; favorite college outside of Princeton, Yale; favorite woman's college, Smith...
Crawley's luck in the fifth inning was sensational. He entered the game with one out, and Keene on third, whither he had proceeded after walking, on Ellison's two-bagger. Crawley walked Zarakov, loading the bases. Todd was due for a hit, and he lined one of the hardest hit balls of the afternoon straight at Di Giovanni. The diminutive second baseman stopped it with one hand and caught it with the other just before it dropped to the ground, retiring the side by doubling up Zarakov at first...
...last time Mr. Hall waded grandly through a character part as the portly theatrical manager, Max Rosenbaum, strictly "cocher". Mr. Hall is sometimes annoying and sometimes pleasing, but always he is different. To play the fat Jew with every mannerism, every whining intonation caught to a nicely, is the hardest thing that this reviewer has ever seen...