Word: pugilists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swathed in bathing dresses that reached their knees, learned that bathing suits must carry knee-length skirts and have tops that reach the neck. Penalty for less bathing suit: $18 fine. Women cannot lie down on Spanish beaches, and men must wear tops as well as trunks. Last year Pugilist Paolino Uzcudun tried to beat the law by swimming in a dinner suit and top hat, was hauled off to court for making fun of the rules, released when he proved there was no law forbidding swimming in evening clothes...
...ring. He still thought he could beat him. "I just got a little careless," he explained through lacerated lips. "That bum's way overrated. He's not even a patch on Jack Johnson's pants." Meanwhile, more disinterested sports men hailed Joe Louis as the greatest pugilist of all time - no one had ever successfully defended the world's heavyweight championship seven times...
...power politics Adolf Hitler exhibits all the amazing intuitive timing and swift footwork that his namesake, Adolf Wolgast, pugilist of German extraction, used to show in the prize ring. Adolf Hitler has made only one error in timing-when he started a punch at Austria in 1934 and was blocked by Benito Mussolini. The speed, precision and preparation with which Adolf Hitler moves should no longer surprise the world. But last week he outdid himself. The four familiar steps of a Hitler conquest-preliminary propaganda, conference with victims, march of troops, and triumphal entry-followed each other like the rapid...
Married. Jack Doyle, 25, pugilist-singer ("The Irish Thrush"); and Movita (real name: Maria Castenada), 22, Mexican cinemactress (Rose of the Rio Grande); "somewhere in Mexico." Irish-born Pugilist Doyle, divorced last year by Cinemactress Judith Allen, was deported a few weeks ago for entering the U. S. without a health certificate...
...second round of a fight in London, 224-lb. Pugilist-Singer Jack Doyle ("The Irish Thrush"), who year ago announced he would give up fighting because "it's too brutal," let go a roundhouse right, missed, fell between the ropes, struck his head on the edge of the ring, knocked himself...