Word: hur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pointer, Mary Blue, by James Ben Hur out of Lee's Grace, drowsing in her kennel at Hayneville, Ala., last week might have been dreaming with a dog's sharp reminiscence of the end of that three hour run; she might have been wondering whether the time had not come for her handler to bring her a platter of lean, raw meat; or she might have guessed, from the smell of the pine crate that was almost overpowering in her infinitely acute nostrils, that she was soon to make another trip to Grand Junction where, on March...
...appear for a long time. And the fame which Scott garnered from this bout is certainly much more Thespian than pugilistic in nature. It wouldn't have been surprising if Scott had been given the job of head Roman gladiator in the next Hollywood production of Ben Hur as the result of his meeting with the toppling tower of the Argentine, but that of opponent (one New York sports writer puts the "opponent" in quotes) of the Squire of Chestnut Hill in the big heavyweight setto of the year--well, that is surprising...