Word: pugilistically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...professional fighter. The fighter was René De Vos, Belgian contender for the middleweight championship; sports - writers laughed merrily for days at the notion ot a respectable person engaging in the fight racket and of a decently dressed and wellspoken person undertaking to pat and rub a bloody pugilist between the rounds of a fight...
...Except Jack Kearns, whilom manager of Pugilist Jack Dempsey, who, knowing nothing of the theatre, was persuaded by a friend to buy two tickets for the show a fortnight ago, was one of an audience of 20 persons, was laughed at for his ignorance by many a Broadwayfaring friend...
...Fight. The first audiences at The Big Fight were composed in large part of dapper and gruesome characters who in no way resembled the admirers of Gene Tunney. It is claimed that among the good qualities of its star, famed Pugilist Jack Dempsey, is the ability to remember persons who "remember him when...
...Johnson, onetime (1908-15) world's champion heavyweight pugilist, is working locally for the Democrats. Last December he was made a Democratic Committeeman in the Second Ward of Chicago. The theory was that he, one of the most famed Negroes of all time, could do much toward organizing the Chicago Black Belt the way Harlem had been organized by the New York Democrats...
Francis Xavier Schwab, genial mayor of Buffalo, met austere Producer David Belasco for the first time last week, at the tryout of Belasco's The Big Fight (in which Pugilist Jack Dempsey is a star). The mayor, pleased, told his chauffeur to go out and get a gold key to the city. This done, Mayor Schwab solemnly said: "I present this key as a mark of esteem from Buffalo and hope, Mr. Belasco, that you will return here countless times with premieres of your matchless plays." Solemnly, Producer Belasco answered: "It is always a pleasure to come to Buffalo...