Word: prizefight
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...story of his life runs along with the speed of a prizefight from the University of Denver to Yale to the Harvard Law School to Oxford with the major interest ever on the boxing ring. One is always conscious of the somewhat loveable big-boy who is the author. The whole book is virile and thoroughly masculine, even when the author describes an evening spent with a group of "aesthetes" at Christ Church College where he war greeted with a lily. And always American, he does not escape that particularly American kind of snobism about titles. When he boasts that...
...kind." ¶ At Peekskill, N. Y., Governor Roosevelt and Speaker Garner met for the first time since their nomination. Speaker: "Hello, Governor." Governor: "Hello, Jack. How's my teammate?'' Speaker: "I'm fine. Jiminy, you look as though you'd been training for a prizefight." They motored to Albany where the vice-presidential nominee told newshawks: "I'm here to see my boss-Governor Roosevelt-and get my orders for the campaign. When I get 'em, I'll carry 'em out like a good soldier." In Manhattan the Speaker declared...
...move was to donate to Yale University, already the recipient from him of enormously valuable Americana, one of the world's finest collections of sporting art. It includes Thomas Eakins' famed prizefight picture, Taking the Count; Frederick Remington's picture of an early football game; a pictorial history of baseball since the Civil War; hundreds of prints, statues. Donor Garvan named it the Whitney Collection, in honor of two late famed Yale sportsmen, Harry Payne Whitney and his brother Payne...
Lean, white-haired (he is 46, has been white-haired since he was 16), Cartoonist Hershfield looks and acts in every way the opposite of "Abie." Exceedingly popular, he claims to know more persons in Manhattan than anyone else not in public life. He has been photographed with eight prizefight champions, is an accomplished diner out, is in perpetual demand as a toastmaster. Also he is a practical joker. He it was who, looking from his apartment window, once saw a woman in an apartment across the street disporting herself with a male caller. Spying the woman's name...
...himself perspiring in a stiff collar. In India he examines a snake, shoots a leopard, expresses conventional approbation of the Taj Mahal by moonlight. The commentary is gay, sometimes painfully so. When elephants lollop in a river, Fairbanks says: "They wear nothing but their trunks." Commenting on a Japanese prizefight, he imitates a radio announcer, ends with, "Graham McNamee announcing." There is no pun about Chinese junk. Pictorially, Around the World in 80 Minutes is nothing much. But the cinema has always before treated information as a bore; travelogs have almost without exception been sad and spiritless products proving...