Word: mats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wrestler Sonnenberg, 29, onetime Dartmouth footballer, butted and struggled with Wrestler Ed ("Strangler") Lewis; threw him once; drove him off the mat so often that Lewis cried quits. Many a spectator adjudged the match, fair and official though it was, more a football game than a wrestling bout. Wrestler Sonnenberg took up professional wrestling without premeditation. One night last year in Boston, after watching two grunters struggle, Sonnenberg said: "I could take those two bums in the ring now and lick both of 'em without getting up a sweat." Said Promoter Cy Mitchell...
...carry the match into two overtime periods, finally throwing the Columbia grappler for a fall after 12 minutes and 45 seconds of intensive fighting. Nathaniel Warner '30 won the fourth fall of the evening in the quickest time of the meet, pinning his opponent's shoulders to the mat in less than half the time allotted for the bout...
...perhaps a sabre-toothed tiger. The sloth was a plant-eating animal with soft teeth and did not know how to fight. So it could only lope towards a hole it knew. It reached the hole, scrambled over the ledge, fell 100 feet to the bottom. Bats who mat> the place their perch fluttered and squeaked fearfully, angrily. The preying beast went away. But the sloth could not climb out of the hole, which was a volcanic pit with vertical sides. Soon the sloth died and the indifferent bats dropped their guano on its dead body. Good for modern paleontology...
...Hoover ticket? Did Senator Norris refuse, and did Senators Howell of Nebraska and Brookhart of Iowa then call on Senator Norris and beg him to reconsider? And did Senator Norris then refuse a third time? Such were the stories told last week in Omaha by one Mat Greevy and the Omaha World-Herald. Newsgatherers considered the stories so improbable that they did not bother to seek denial or confirmation from busy Nominee Hoover, whose door is guarded by a chubby secretary and the expletive: "A lot of foolish nonsense!" (see LETTERS...
...Brooklyn. In 1907 she made her Manhattan debut in the first edition of the Ziegfeld Follies. She was five times married. When her hair turned grey at an early age she made the color fashionable instead of making it different with dyes. Her Manhattan apartment had a "Welcome" mat at its door for all impoverished actors. The day before she went to the hospital she appeared in a benefit performance...