Word: maddens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Bartley Madden, 40, New York heavyweight boxer; after falling off the steps of the Treasury Building at Washington during a sight-seeing tour. Onetime champion of his native Ireland, he was famed in the U. S. as a tough, courageous "trial horse" for title-seekers. In 22 years he fought 94 bouts: won 52 (29 knockouts), lost 14 (one knockout-by Gene...
...superior to his competitors as she to hers, had won the men's championship. Said a Manhattan journalist of Henie: "Her costume was an eye-popper. . . . The flame-flowered little Nasturtium of the North swept straight into the hearts of her spectators." Fancy Skater J. Lester Madden of Boston wore a red necktie, fell down four times...