Word: pugilistically
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Since Carnera arrived in the U. S. almost two years ago (in an extra-large berth specially constructed for him on S.S. Olympic-TIME, Oct. 28, 1929) he has established himself as the most thoroughly publicized if not the ablest pugilist in history. By this time, everyone knows that he is 6 ft. 6½ in. tall; that his shoes are Size 20; that his walking stick on days when his managers expect him to be photographed, weighs 9 Ib.; that his neck is 20 in. around; that all other parts of his body, as is not usually the case...
...Larry Gaines. a splayfooted, rough-kneed, lazy blackamoor pugilist: a Leicester, England fight against Phil Scott, famed British heavyweight who had been training for four months, got knocked out in the second round...
...have set in motion a unique expedition into a new field of world economics," said Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, the big, handsome Manhattan lawyer (onetime policeman, onetime pugilist), who has worked over this plan steadily for the past nine months...
...inauguration of WGBS-W2XCR, Pugilist Primo Camera showed his primeval face. Sir Guy Standing went through part of Mrs. Moonlight, Performers Peggy Joyce, Gertrude Lawrence. Frances Williams did skits which were broadcast and recognized, though distorted by static...
Except when he is trying to be tough, Lew Ayres acts quietly and naturally, but he is not a light-heavyweight, not even a distant likeness of a pugilist: in spite of his efforts to make prominent the muscles of his slender body, greased to show high relief under the lights, one never loses the suspicion that his manager, Robert Arm- strong, an athletic young man who looks something like Jack Sharkey, could slap him over anytime for no purse. Absurdities include a gymnasium shot in which a training fighter swings wildly at his spar- ring partner's chin...