Word: prizefights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that immediately followed, when John Singer Sargent was painting socialite portraits in the British manner, Henry James was preaching the superiority of European civilization, and Architect Stanford White felt that a copy of a Spanish Cathedral's bell tower was the proper thing for a horse show and prizefight auditorium, a few U. S. artists began discovering the American Scene. Many of them were born in Philadelphia, most of them were influenced by the earlier painting of Philadelphia's Thomas Eakins, all of them lived and worked in New York and within the past decade all of them...
This year, Long Island will lack both the World's Heavyweight Championship prizefight and the international yacht races which it has been taught to expect...
...voice had been heard by 100,000,000 spectators at New York prize fights, theatres, rodeos, ball games, carnivals, races, funerals. He scorned loudspeakers, earned $25 for ordinary and $100 for championship fights, invented a system of hand-wavings to show a fighter's exact weight, made a prizefight crowd of 40,000 stand in silence while he improvised a prayer the night Lindbergh was flying toward Paris. In 1933, when he awoke one night to find himself alone and paralyzed as a result of his first stroke of apoplexy, Announcer Humphreys achieved his masterpiece. He announced...
...last winter it had long been unanimously conceded by all prizefight experts that Louis would win the heavyweight championship as soon as he fought the current holder, James J. Braddock-who had won it from Louis' predecessor as super-fighter, Max Baer. The desideratum was to heighten not the suspense but the dramatic finality of this achievement by delaying it as long as possible. In the hope that doing so would prove a profitable venture, 20th Century Sporting Club dug up Schmeling who, since losing the title to Jack Sharkey and being thrashed by a second-rater named Steve...
Among the things that prizefight reporters & public overlooked last week was the fact that the first-class heavyweights Louis had fought did not include one who was reasonably quick, intelligent and courageous. Consequently, Press & public were unaware that Joe Louis had not yet learned how to defend himself from a straight right-hand punch on the jaw. Max Schmeling revealed this shocking omission in the fourth round of the fight. Superman Louis flopped down on his haunches...