Word: pugilist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides booming milk as an aid to sexual success, the State of New York has also pointed out its virtues as a strength-giver. "[It] was a fight against odds," Pugilist James J. Braddock was represented as declaring of his lackpenny preparation for winning the heavyweight championship. "But when it came to milk . . . well, we gave up a lot of things but never milk. I don't think I ever could have gotten in shape without it." Other witnesses to milk's athletic potency: Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Grantland Rice...
Into Detroit's public welfare office marched dusky, buxom Mrs. Lilly Brooks, mother of Negro Pugilist Joe Louis and eight other offspring. Under the superintendent's nose she shoved a check for $269, equal to the relief money which had tided her and her brood over a hard period in 1927-28. Said she: "Joe wanted it paid back...
Next day, Promoter Mike Jacobs announced the date and circumstances of the next attempt to determine, by public subscription, the still unmeasured capacity of Pugilist Louis to withstand punishment: a bout with onetime Heavyweight Champion Max Baer next month in New York or Chicago, depending on which seems more capable of paying for the privilege...
Married. Max Adelbert Baer, 26, pugilist; and Mary Ellen Sullivan. 32, manager of Washington's New Willard. Hotel Coffee Shop; in Washington. D. C. Fisticuffer Baer had previously been reported engaged to Mary Duke, Mary Kirk Brown, June Knight, Edna Dunham, Sally Rand, Bee Starr, Shirley La Belle, Judith Allen, Olive Beck...
...champion who loses his title rarely wins it back, partly because Canzoneri, eight years older than his opponent, has indubitably lost some of his old enthusiasm for absorbing punches. When they climbed out, after 15 busy rounds, Canzoneri had knocked Ambers down three times, had become the first lightweight pugilist in history to win the championship after being defeated in defense of it. Said he: "I think Ambers remembered the sparring partner days and that affected him psychologically. . . . I'll fight any challenger the Commission wants me to." Observers expected him to hold the title until Barney Ross, scheduled...