Word: prizefight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's Eighth Avenue the waiter at Andy Murphy's Bar hauled out his finest Scotches and liqueurs; a nearby news vendor noticed a sudden flurry in the demand for such publications as Rider & Driver and Town & Country. From 48th to 52nd Streets, prizefight and hockey fans were in temporary retreat before the advancing wave of high society which was bravely turned out in sables and silk hats, diamonds and décolletages. The 61st annual National Horse Show was on in Madison Square Garden...
...down and the crowd of 31,092 came to its feet, filling the Polo Grounds with a frenzied roar. Rocky's dazed foe took a count of nine, came up wobbly and was chased into a corner by the most furious killer (in appearance, at least) in the prizefight business...
...hickory-smoked country ham with "redeye" gravy, hominy grits, bacon & eggs and hot biscuits. As usual, it was a time for loud laughing and hearty reminiscences of some of the boys who were gone. Captain Harry did some reminiscing himself: Remember poor old Sandifer? He came through many a prizefight on cigarettes and a bottle of whisky, recalled the President, but "a fellow in Kansas City . . . dropped a brick on him and killed him." Then he solemnly reminded his boys that they and he must be careful not to get the big head: "Due to the fact that through luck...
Profession of Faith. Jesuit Feeney alternately dazzled them with his erudition and convulsed them with his histrionics. He enjoyed doing impersonations of celebrities uttering incongruities (Franklin Roosevelt talking about the state of the church, Katharine Hepburn broadcasting a prizefight). All of Boston College's dismissed teachers taught at the center. Months before last fortnight's uproar, one of them, Dr. Fakhri Maluf, wrote an article for the center's quarterly publication, From the Housetops, which has been belaboring Jesuit "liberalism...
...weeks, Willie trained in a Hartford gym, while his neighbors piled in to watch. Last week, some 6,500 Connecticut fans followed him to Manhattan by auto and special trains, helped fill Madison Square Garden for a prizefight for the first time in three years...