Word: palooka
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today's game is really what I am here to tell you about, and believe me it is no easy job. As a matter of fact I might say that after my national success of last week on a bunch of games which almost any palooka who wasn't a sports writer could have predicted, I stand in a rather precarious position: It's not that I don't know what will happen; it's simply that I hate to dish old friends like Arnie Horween and Mal Stevens. Now these--two boys seem to think that if I would...
Died. John White ("Con") Conway, 42, dramatic critic of Variety, famed Manhattan theatrical trade weekly, inventor of many Broadway colloquialisms ("clicked," "pushover," "palooka"); from a heart attack, near Hamilton, Bermuda...