Word: hatchet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...covered his face with his elbows, weathered the round. In the fourth he rushed at Sharkey as the latter led a hard uppercut at his body. As the punch landed. Schmeling fell forward, writhing, gripping his groin. Handlers and managers jumped into the ring. Referee Jim Crowley, thin, baldheaded, hatchet-faced, ran from corner to corner, asking the two ring judges what they thought. One judge had not seen the punch. The other, an optometrist named Harold Reade Barnes, insisted it was foul. Accordingly Referee Crowley pushed Sharkey, crestfallen and dismayed, into his corner, declared Schmeling, still unable to stand...
Twenty-seven years ago Shoeman Schultzenstein married a girl with whom he lived until 1923, when she attacked him with a meat-hatchet. Husband and wife then lived apart until 1926, when he made a business connection in Leningrad, went there to live. Soon he took a Russian wife under Soviet law without previously divorcing his meat-hatchet spouse in Germany...
Back to Berlin moved Otto Schultzenstein with his young, Red wife and was promptly charged with bigamy by his old German wife, as sharp and relentless as her meat-hatchet...