Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comment of the strongly pro-Hoover New York Telegram, leader of the 26 Scripps-Howard chain-papers. Said the Telegram: "Stupidity is the most charitable interpretation. . . . Dr. Hubert Work is a liability, not an asset, to Herbert Hoover. . . . It has long been our opinion that Work is a lightweight. . . . Herbert Hoover would immeasurably strengthen his position with millions of American voters if he would drop that particular pilot...
...racket" plays has become a racket in itself. This play, the latest in the Fight Game series, improves on many of its predecessors by furnishing a complete set of characters of its own instead of "ad-libbing" from the newspapers. The square jawed hero, for example, is a lightweight instead of the usual heavyweight. He is not a facsimile of Benny Leonard, Sammy Mandell or any other celebrity. He is simply Bobby Murray, a type instead of a borrowed headline. Actor Richard Taber makes the part into a distinct, albeit dull personality. Actor John Meehan does even better, much better...
Surveying triumphantly the Parliamentary order thus restored, President Smith was about to descend from the balcony when a Welsh Communist, Arthur Horner, onetime amateur lightweight boxing champion of South Wales, rushed up the aisle belligerently shouting, "I'm in on this fight...
McLarnin-McGraw. James McLarnin, lightweight who has a cherub's face and wears a harp on his bathrobe, who knocked out Sid Terris with one punch but who couldn't lay a glove on Champion Samuel Mandell, feinted with his left last week in Madison Square Garden, then crossed his right to the retreating but tough chin of Phillip McGraw, lightweight from Marathon, Greece, knocking him through the ropes into the lap of one of the judges. McGraw climbed back, was knocked down three times more, after which, amid cries of "Stop it," Referee Dorman lifted Mc-Larnin...
With a harp on his back, James McLarnin, 135-lb. Irishman from Los Angeles, stepped through the ropes of a ring at the Polo Grounds, Manhattan, and smiled genially at Lightweight Champion Samuel Mandell. A great shout went up. As is usual in Manhattan, the shout was for the wearer of the harp. Champion Mandell had been too long in retirement to win favor. He came out of his corner to win it now. On the cherubic face of Harp-wearer McLarnin he dropped jabs that soon closed an eye, caused bumps to rise and blood to trickle. Nervy...