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...Jefferson Davis Park. Unofficially, the "South's greatest party" had started night before. A host of otherwise solid citizens had dressed up in their dinner jackets and had taken their wives, sweethearts and daughters to a prize fight at Ellis Auditorium between somebody called Eddie Wolfe and a pug named Harry Dublinsky. To lend tone to the affair, Jack Dempsey was picking his nose in the ring and acting as referee. After Mr. Dublinsky and Mr. Wolfe had finished with each other, the celebrants moved en masse to the Hotel Peabody, a copy of which graces every...
...Sallow, pug-nosed, swaggering Welker Cochran, San Francisco billiardist: 400-to-139, with a high run of 217, his play-off match in the international 18.2 balk line billiards tournament, against skinny Erich Hagenlacher of Germany; in Chicago...
...definitely Republican party of Premier Don Diego Martinez Barrios grew nervous as it began to seem that the women's vote might give victory to extreme Right parties loyal to "His Most Catholic Majesty." As tension grew the Mayor of Badajos was stabbed to death by poll pug-uglies, but not until he had fired his pistol several times, accidentally wounding a woman and child. In Madrid a pack of Socialists shouting "Kill the traitor!" chased for blocks a man who had cried "Long live the King!" He finally escaped into the Ministry of Public Works where...
...Arbor, a crowd of 65.000 watched Michigan, unbeaten and untied since 1931, outplayed by Minnesota, whose Pug Lund gained more ground than the whole Michigan backfield put together but failed to get within scoring range until five minutes before the game ended. Then, on fourth down at Michigan's 24-yd. line, Minnesota's Bill Bevan missed the place-kick that would have broken...
Beneath its crop of curly reddish hair the round pug-nosed face of Senator Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long of Louisiana glared pugnacious defiance across the Senate Chamber at Virginia's famed Carter Glass. The bill that "won't go through before March 4" was Senator Glass's to revamp the Federal Reserve system. Senator Long, opposed to its branch banking features, was out to talk it to death. He waved his arms in mighty circles. He bludgeoned the Senate with loud arrogant words. He drove most of his colleagues from the Chamber in utter disgust. But almost...