Word: pugilistically
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...What son of a pugilist said he would win a race and did? (See SPORT...
There is a new saga to be sung in Nova Scotia-about Johnny Miles, the Welsh pugilist's son, who worked in the coal drifts at Cape Breton until his father saw he was a footracer. It will tell how Johnny was found a job aboveground, driving a grocer's wagon; was trained, conditioned, counseled and sent down to tell the officials of the great Boston Marathon that he, a lad of 18, had come to win their race, though never in his life had he run more than 15 miles on end. It will sing of Clarence...
...anyone will agree who has read his earlier works--has done much better than this. He has apparently lost the flair and vigor of "The Broad Highway" even of "Peregrine's Progress", and the book suffers from the absence of that vitality. True there is Jessamy Todd, the Methodist-pugilist, and an occasional character of the Farnol tradition--which is the Dickens tradition-but they are wraiths compared with the coves he used to draw. A certain dashing style and a gallant exuberance of spirits is necessary for success in the kind of novel Mr. Farnol enjoys writing. And that...
Married. W. L. ("Young") Stribling, 21, famed light heavyweight pugilist, to Miss Clara Virginia Kinney, 19, brunet granddaughter of Judge Dupont Guerry (onetime President of Wesleyan College, Macon...
Died. Louis Phal ("Battling Siki"), famed Senegalese pugilist; murdered in Manhattan...