Word: pugilist
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...plotters like the fabulous Russian Borodin (alias Ginzberg), with whom Beals used to quarrel over Realpolitik and eugenics. Borodin, claims Beals, invited him to participate in a plot to recover a million dollars worth of Tsarist jewels which he had lost to a double-crossing German revolutionist in Haiti. Pugilist Jack Johnson, a favorite of the carousing Mexican generals, gave Beals a $20 donation to start a literary magazine. Mike Gold disappointed Beals by giving up poetry to become a Communist columnist. D. H. Lawrence, whose genius Beals admitted, disgusted him by his neurotic social behavior...
Golden Boy. Clifford Odets' play about a pugilist-fiddler who, having to choose between his fists and his fingers, chooses wrong (TIME...
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...
...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...
...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...