Word: jujitsu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...HURLED OFF SPAN. "The SUnshine streamed in-Gail is getting well." Jujitsu & Tears. In a nearby column was a "blonde Portia" who was her own lawyer in her suit against her father and stepmother. They wanted to "railroad" her to an insane asylum, she said, purportedly to get their hands on her cash. One day she used jujitsu on an opposing lawyer; the next day she "became the traditionally soft woman-tears and all ... broke down . . . and wept freely . . . several jurors and spectators wept with...
Dave Beck-a man who has never been known to brawl himself-used violence as calculatingly as a general uses artillery. His teamsters could take care of themselves on almost any picket line. At one time he announced that hundreds of them were being trained in jujitsu and boxing for the sake of their health...
Died. Colonel Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Sr., 73, muscular Christian, father of the wartime ambassador to the governments in exile; following a cerebral hemorrhage; in Syosset, N.Y. He founded the Drexel Biddle Bible Classes in 1907 (their curriculum of fighting-&-praying ultimately attracted 200,000 members), taught jujitsu and dirty fighting to Marines in both World Wars...
Died. Craig Biddle, 68, gay blade of the mauve decade, socialite, sportsman; of a heart ailment; in Wakefield, R.I. Brother of famed Marine Jujitsu Instructor Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, uncle of ex-U.S. Ambassador to Poland Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., Craig Biddle was a society leader on two continents, ran two showplace mansions (Lauranto in Radnor, Pa., Nethercliffe in Newport), played Davis Cup tennis, married three times...
...shouted gaily, "This is the best show I've seen in a long time." For two hours and 20 minutes he remained, talking to the President. Fidgety newsmen, waiting in an antechamber, cracked that he was either: 1) demanding Mr. Truman's resignation, or 2) trying his jujitsu tricks on the President. Then he came out, still smiling...