Word: prizefight
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Novelist Ernest Hemingway, refereeing a Negro prizefight at Key West, Fla. was counting out one of the fighters when a Negro second threw in a towel. Referee Hemingway threw it out. The second jumped into the ring, swung at the referee. Mr. Hemingway gave him a left jab to the chin, twisted his ear. Said Referee Hemingway, "He must have lost his head...
...next afternoon, under a broiling Mississippi sun with the temperature at 107, in the forty-fourth round of a prizefight John L. began to vomit. 'Will you draw the fight?' asked his opponent, Jake Kilrain, as they came up to scratch. 'No, you son of a bitch,' said Sullivan, heaving fluidly in the general direction of Jake. 'Stand up and fight!' Jake stood up, and stepped on John's foot with his ⅛-inch spikes, and Sullivan sent him sprawling with a chopping, sledgehammer blow on the jugular vein. John L. went...
...agent bought a generous supply of opium and went to Chicago. Here the members of the Hip Sing Tong were so entranced by his personality and appetite for opium that, when he capped his friendly gestures by presenting them with a wad of tickets to the Braddock v. Louis prizefight, he was rewarded by being initiated into the Chicago branch of the Tong. He brought along a fellow agent, had him initiated also. By this time, the agent was also expressing an interest in heroin and morphine. This the Tong members were able to supply him through a group...
...Livermore Jr., 18, son of Wall Street's famed speculator, now recovered from bullet wounds received at his mother's hands during a Montecito, Calif, drinking excursion (TIME, Dec. 9, 1935); to one Evelyn Bletzer Sullivan, 20, four years a divorcee, daughter of a late barkeep and prizefight promoter...
...from the vigorous, maturing pen of Playwright Clifford Odets to put up a convincing argument for plain speaking in the spoken drama, for the serious play as a good show. Its dozen scenes sketched the tragic story of a U. S.-Italian family caught in the toils of the prizefight business. Though it sometimes teetered on the brink of bathos, Author Odets' robust sincerity kept it from toppling over...