Word: pug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such a well-mannered magazine as the Saturday Review of Literature, the experience was a shock - but the shock was not limited to the magazine. In 1936 a scrappy, pug-nosed man from Utah took over as editor. His name, Bernard DeVoto, soon became a synonym for the atrabilious type of crusader who seems perpetually to be throwing a tantrum. Sinclair Lewis, one of his early targets, called him "a tedious and egotistical fool . . . a pompous and boresome liar." "What," asked Critic Edmund Wilson, "is Mr. DeVoto's real grievance . . . this continual boiling up about other people...
...played by Britain's enchanting Claire Bloom, seemed well worth it. Playwrights '56 struck a more sombre note with Ernest Hemingway's The Battler, whose familiar plot (a heavyweight champion is broken by success) was well-served by Paul Newman as the crazed, broken-faced pug, and Dewey Martin as a young runaway who finds the world both terrible and tender...
...superb dancing, inventive musical numbers, witty spoofery of TV's overstuffed brass and mawkish product-hawking of such goodies as H 2 O Cola, as well as its spirited jabs and gibes at Madison Square Garden's crooks and pug-ugly environs, Fair Weather rates as one of the top contenders for the year's lightweight title...
...Slow and clumsy, and just about the only man in the house who did not know he was through as a fighter, former Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles stumbled around the ring in Miami for nine rounds before he finally dropped under the awkward flailing of a third-rate pug named John Holman...
...really happy. Last summer, in a Paris church, Sugar Ray remembers: "It suddenly hit me-a strange desire to fight again. It just conquered me. I figure it was God's will." Early this month, Sugar Ray took down his gloves and tried them out against a bumbling pug named Joe Rindone. He won by a knockout, but the fight proved little. Last week in Chicago, Sugar Ray squared off again-against a battered trial horse named Tiger Jones...