Word: knockouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rehabilitate himself Promoter Dickson put Paulino into the ring against an English fighter named Harry Drake. Boxer Drake was so terrified at the sight of his bronzed opponent from the Pyrenees that it took several handlers to push him into the ring. There was a quick and ugly knockout and variorum reports of what happened to Promoter Dickson, who was supposed to have been hit on the head with a wine bottle. He discharged his matchmaker, packed the house for his next fight by giving free tickets wholesale to Citroen mechanics. Thus began the Golden Age of French boxing...
...Republic) has nothing, except its title, in common with Meredith Nicholson's 1905 best seller. It is a spy melodrama of the old school, concerning code letters, the Simplon Express, diplomats in Geneva and a beautiful dancer (Rosita Moreno) who gives her admirers knockout drops. The courier (Phillips Holmes) whose job is to deliver a message on which the peace of Europe depends, succeeds in doing so, aided by a young female tourist (Mae Clarke) and not too seriously hampered by the head of the spy ring (Irving Pichel...
...pound class--R.C. Bell defeated Robert H. Delafield '38 by technical knockout...
...preserve his feeble physique, has perfected the art of ducking punches, tries to rescue his sister (Helen Mack) from two drunks. When he ducks a punch from one of the drunks, it knocks out the other, who turns out to be Middleweight Champion "Speed"' MacFarland. Acclaimed for the knockout, Burleigh is urged by MacFarland's manager (Adolphe Menjou) to try prizefighting professionally. He accepts, to raise money to help cure Agnes, his ailing milkwagon horse. The story that follows is what hundreds of similar farces have taught cinemaddicts to expect, but the gags are new and Director...
Although few fighters of relatively conspicuous merit could be picked from the generally high standard of the '39 squad, perhaps the neatest performance last night was Richardson's knockout of Ryan of M.I.T. in the third round in the 135-pound class...