Word: maulers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Easing through the crush of persons jamming the Waldorf's four reception rooms, Jack Dempsey said: "This is the toughest fight I've had in a long time." When Comedian Milton Berle introduced Mrs. Dempsey to Mrs. Gene Tunney, he said to the Manassa Mauler's wife: "Your husband knows her husband...
...Joan of the Stockyards (1929) is wholly in the first category. Pierpont Mauler is a crush-as-crush-can Chicago meat baron. When a careless worker falls into the meat machinery at Mauler's plant, he is tinned with the product. This sort of thing makes Brecht's caricature of capitalists both hopelessly dated and immensely funny to a modern American audience. Joan Dark (Jeanne d'Arc), the girl who stands up to Mauler, is a parody figure mostly modeled on Shaw's Major Barbara-a Salvation Army-type lassie who belongs to an evangelical group...