Word: leviathans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dignified and honest sport, professional wrestling currently amounts to something between a side show and a racket. Main object of wrestling promoters is to discover human monstrosities. Last week Boston wrestling enthusiasts were treated to a glimpse of the latest addition to the wrestling group. He was Martin ("Leviathan") Levy...
...monsters to have themselves exploited. No athlete, Levia than Levy is actually a victim of both elephantiasis and a weak heart. He runs a Boston parking lot, works intermittently in circuses, has so much appetite and so little fastidiousness that he eats peanuts in the shells. When wrestling, Leviathan Levy wears a tire tube for a belt. Off his feet, he requires four men to stand him up again. Opponents find him formidable be cause he is too big to hold, too slippery to twist, too heavy to lift. Leviathan Levy's only trick is to knock down...
...Leviathan"....Stuarts....Plantaganets turning over in their graves. Does the Divine Right of Kings include Mrs. Simpson...
...British contender for the title of "largest ship afloat" which was built on the River Clyde and is now in active service is the (1 George V , 2 Glasgow, 3 Queen Mary, 4 Normandie, 5 Leviathan...
...confiscated by the Allies, awarded to Great Britain in 1919. Completed in 1921, she went into service for the White Star Line as the Majestic. From then until the launching of the Normandie last year, she was the largest ship afloat, though the 907-ft. Leviathan made similar claims. In 1923 the bulky three-stacker momentarily snatched the transatlantic speed record from the Mauretania (now also junked) by crossing in 5 days...