Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pounds.--Lightweight...
...rector, while George, the other, is a Conservative candidate for Parliament; both represent the views and ambitions of his father. The horror of the family reaches a climax upon the discovery that Brother William had adopted the career of a prize-fighter, and had retired from the ring as lightweight champion of the world under the name of "Gunboat Williams." Into this atmosphere, thick with rock-bound English traditions and customs. William introduces his slangy, breezy, Americanized presence, and thus furnishes the material for three acts of comic dialogue and situations, which approaches a sort of unintentional horse-play toward...
Bantam-weight, 115 lbs.; feather-weight, 125 lbs.; lightweight, 135 lbs.; welterweight, 145 lbs.; middle-weight, 160 lbs.; light heavy-weight, 175 lbs.; and over. No variations in weight will be allowed; any man tipping the beam at the stated weights being moved up into the next class...