Word: pugilistic
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...Primo Camera, monster Venetian pugilist: an uproarious Manhattan fight against Victorio Campolo, taller, slimmer monster of the Argentine: by a knockout, in the second round...
...Champ (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) will probably extract more tears than any other cinema made in 1931, with the possible exception of The Sin of Madelon Claudet (TIME, Nov. 9). It is about a broken-down pugilist (Wallace Beery) and his ragamuffin son (Jackie Cooper). There is really only one situation-Jackie Cooper struggling to go on worshiping his father in the face of Beery's unworthy behavior (guzzling, crap-shooting, brawling in bad company) and Beery, shamed at his shiftlessness, struggling to preserve his son's loyalty. Every time Beery gets drunk, gambles away the racehorse which...
...Mosley, rich playboy politico. Deserted by Oliver Baldwin and by his wife (Lady Cynthia Mosley M. P. excused herself from seeking re-election "on account of poor health"), Sir Oswald put-18-queer candidates, mostly athletes, in the field. His star candidate: "Kid" Lewis, whilom English middleweight champion, a pugilist of no political experience who will contest Whitechapel where he lives, is popular with the rabble...
...cement factory at Nantes where he applied for French citizenship. Discharged from the factory, he joined an itinerant carnival, improved his muscles by wrestling with third-rate professionals, yokels in French villages. When the carnival disbanded, Monster Carnera bloated to 285 Ib. He was observed by a French pugilist, Paul Journée, who made friends with Carnera, telegraphed his onetime manager, Leon See, about the discovery. Manager See inspected Carnera, decided he was "a generosity of nature," took him to Paris to teach him how to fight...
...Collier's Weekly James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, retired pugilist, wrote about his spring visit to Russia. Excerpt: "One seemed to lose one's iden tity the moment the Russian border was crossed. You began to feel the meaning of: Oh, to be lord of one's self, unencumbered with a name...