Word: pugilistically
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...office would interfere with his work as pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, Manhattan, or with his annual winter trips to Florida. Last Saturday the Rev. Roach Straton went quail-shooting with a Supreme Kingdom underling, one "Pa" Stribling, father of William Lawrence ("Young") Stribling, Macon professional pugilist (white...
...tribe," mangling the traditions, making love to his Helen, and lording it over the aunt. In order to marry the lady of his heart, it is necessary for him to quell a sporadic revolution and reconstruct the government into a democracy. For Broadway's satisfaction, a New York pugilist, Larry O'Moore (Frank Otto) has been trumped up. When he claps a very formal archduke on the back in the hearty manner of Times Square, the audience hee-haws. When the cowboy (ably done by Minor Watson) begs his courtiers not to go into reverse as they back...
...film rights so the only Shaw novel "Cashel Byro Profession." The mere offer would be sufficiently interesting, but the shrewd Mr. Lasky has even more delightful things in store. If he succeeds in obtaining the rights he intends and most appropriately to sign Mr. Glene Tunney to play the pugilist. No one could be better fitted for the role; like Shaw's hero Tunney has gained fame as the student heavy weight. What he does to Kant Hegel and the boys is according to his press agents no less than what he did at the Sesquicentennial. Give him a book...
...gentleman of 39, obtained a Ph. D. at Columbia University in 1921 and later instructed there, in English. Soon after its inception, the American Mercury enlisted his caustic nib, as has the Century Magazine. Last year he caused widespread delight with a biography of the late and eminent pugilist, John L. Sullivan (TIME, April...
...Detroit, one Patrick Klein (pugilist) last week argued with a bullyboy thug - who fired four shots point blank. One bullet pierced Pugilist Klein's chest, nicked the outer wall of his heart, fortunately for him, just as it was contracting in its beat. Had the heart been expanding at the instant of the bullet's passing, it would have been torn mortally. Last week Surgeon Bernard Friedlander at Detroit's Highland Park General Hospital laid open Pugilist Klein's chest with infinite care not to disturb the even pulsation of the heart, plucked out the imbedded...