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Word: lefthandedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Walker vs. Tendler. In Philadelphia, a ten-round contest for the welterweight title was decided in favor of Champion Mickey Walker, who refused to give Lew Tendler (lefthanded lightweight) the ghost of a chance. Some said that neither man suffered overmuch from exertion. Tendler left the ring without a mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fights | 6/16/1924 | See Source »

Nancy Ann. The titular character is a young miss who, in spite of growing up with all the advantages of patrician society, does everything lefthanded. Those advantages include a quartet of berating aunts who are constantly trying to jerk her into a state of perfection. Their nagging accounts for Nancy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Apr. 14, 1924 | 4/14/1924 | See Source »

Everything lefthanded. (P. 16.)

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Apr. 14, 1924 | 4/14/1924 | See Source »

The old American backwoods developed men with plenty of red-blooded fighting spirit, but unfortunately furnished them with a fighting code which demanded just one retaliation for every slur on a man's name, home or country, namely, immediate and direct action with ax, gun, or flst. Where each man...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HE STOOPS TO CONQUER | 5/19/1923 | See Source »

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