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Word: pugilist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Golden Boy. Clifford Odets' play about a pugilist-fiddler who, having to choose between his fists and his fingers, chooses wrong (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

Members of the cast, except for the chorus, have been tentatively chosen. Oscar Hausserman '38 will take the part of the punch-drunk pugilist, Beaudegarde Schmaltz. David Glueck '38 will play Lava Lucille, a South Sea Island Princess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "REVOLT IN REVERSE" IS 1938 PI ETA SHOW | 2/24/1938 | See Source »

...Chicago Defender, one of the largest U. S. colored newspapers, announced to 97,000 readers that next week it would publish a column by Marva Trotter Louis, wife of dead-pan Actor-Pugilist Joe Louis, which would "unfold all that's new ... for each dressy hours of the day and evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 14, 1938 | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...Heavyweight Nathan Mann, 22, of New Haven, Conn.; a ten-round boxing match with New York's Bob Pastor; in which Pugilist Mann overcame Pugilist Pastor's famed running-and-holding propensities, decisively squelched his claim to being No. 1 contender for the world's heavyweight championship; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

Louis failed to knock out, returned to England, surprised English boxing writers by talking of his earnings in dollars rather than pounds. Explained Pugilist Farr: "There's more of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 25, 1937 | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

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