Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Montreal bulky Henri Deglane wriggled out of a series of headlocks and clapped a flying mare on bullet headed, cone houldered old Ed ("Strangler"; Lewis, "world's champion" of the Sandow-Bowser group of wrestlers, and flapped him over. Loudly cheered Canuck partisans, for no one had expected Deglane to get a fall. Again they wrestled. Lewis threw Deglane. But when the French-Canadian got up he grimaced pitiably, held out his right arm, showed toothmarks, swore that Lewis had bitten him. Indignant, the referee conferred with athletic commissioners, awarded the fall, the bout, the championship, to Deglane. Indignant...
...will do anything he can to make railroad journeys pleasant, comfortable, safe. He is the factotum of a confined and temporary world and his trustworthiness is part of the national credo. The necessity for this trustworthiness was evident last week when a Pullman porter went berserk on a Montreal-bound New York Central train...
...Montreal, John Moraine, who had been paralyzed in his legs for three months, saw lightning strike his home and ran away quickly...
After the usual involved but lucrative series of preliminary playoffs, two teams of the National Hockey League survived to compete for the Stanley Cup, symbol of the world's championship- the Montreal Canadiens and the Chicago Black Hawks. Wise money favored the Black Hawks, reasoned that the Canadiens were bruised and tired after their preliminary series with Boston, that Chicago, with its famed staff (biggest in hockey) of eleven forwards would come through if only on freshness. In the first game in Chicago, the Canadiens mustered speed for what seemed a dying effort, blocked the rushes of Cook, Adams...
...Before the formation of the National Hockey League (1908), so large were the gate receipts of one Montreal team that Canadian hockey fans nicknamed it the "Millionaires." The name stuck, was used by subsequent successful teams, finally devolved upon the Canadiens' rooters...