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Davey, a southpaw powderpuff puncher with fancy-Dan footwork, stayed on even terms with Gavilan for the first two rounds. In Round 3, Gavilan opened up with one of his famed flurries, pummeling with lefts, rights and his own uppercutting bolo punch. Davey, bewildered by the barrage, was dumped to the canvas for a nine count, the first time he had ever been knocked down. From then on it was just a matter of time, and Gavilan took his time. In Rounds 5 and 6, Gavilan switched styles and fought southpaw too, "just...
...almost nightfall, a firefly hour, blue as milkglass; and birds like arrows swooped together and swept into the folds of trees. Before storms, leaves and flowers appear to burn with a private light, color, and Miss Bobbit, got up in a little white skirt like a powderpuff and with strips of gold-glittering tinsel ribboning her hair, seemed, set against the darkening all around, to contain this illuminated quality . . . She stood that way for a good long while, and Aunt El said it was right smart...
...Cinemactor Herbert Marshall, trying to suave up a farfetched, dreary thriller, "The Man Called X." One of the most expensive of the current whodunits, its script packed the wallop of a powderpuff...
When questioned as to why the smoke of our gasoline fire had not been noticed earlier, Mr. Douglas replied with the typical contempt in which a sailing enthusiast holds "powderpuff" sailing: "We didn't think it unusual-power boats always smoke like that...