Word: jaw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fight Major defect in Joe Louis' fighting equipment, as shown in his defeat by Schmeling, was an inadequate defense against a right to the jaw. Major defect in most of Louis' opponents has been simple fear. Last week, as soon as the fight started, it became obvious that Braddock was not afraid and that Louis could still be hit with a right. After forcing the fighting through most of the first round, Braddock, pinned momentarily against the ropes, caught Louis with a short right uppercut that knocked his opponent off his feet. Louis jumped up without a count...
Slave Ship is not for the squeamish. Its eight reels contain an incredible amount of knifing, jaw-punching, conking on the head, lashing in chains, shooting, slapping and assorted casual brutalities. Sometimes its violence is shrewdly planned and powerful; sometimes, particularly when Director Tay Garnett uses for comedy the same form of physical surprise which a moment earlier he was using for horror, it is inept. But the action is generally lusty and well-integrated. Best minor role: Mickey Rooney as the resolute, bewildered cabin boy whose loyalty veers hazardously between the brutal mate and the romantic skipper...
...Robinson of Philadelphia, U. S. amateur heavyweight champion, scored the evening's sensation. Given the edge over Nino Paoletti, Italian champion, after the first round, Robinson promptly staggered from a right to the jaw, slumped to the floor. Rising on Referee Jack Dempsey's count of nine, he wobbled through the rest of the second round, toppled Paoletti in the third, won the decision...
...Devil's Playground" is all about how a naval officer marries a no-good woman, punches his best friend on the jaw when he finds him kissing her, decides to let the man suffocate when he sinks to the bottom of the ocean in a submarine, since he alone in all the navy can dive deep enough to rescue him, but goes and fetches him up at the very last minute, when he learns what a wicked siren he is married to. There is no objection to the familiarity of these elements; one might only wish that they were joined...
...this point Mr. Critchfield's observations halted because he was knocked out. When he revived, the Douglas transport was wedged between two trees, minus its wings and considerably messed up. But only Pilot Merrill was badly hurt, with a broken jaw, a broken ankle. Overconfident, as he readily admitted, he had been led astray by bad weather-reporting and rain static on the radio, had come down through the overcast thinking he was at Newark, had found a hillside instead. By extraordinary luck and skill he managed to make a forced landing...