Word: pugilists
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Born. To Lew Tendler, recently defeated by pugilist Leonard in a fight for the lightweight championship of the world, and Mrs. Tendler, a son (nine pounds), at Philadelphia...
Jack Dempsey, heavyweight boxing champion, has broken the charmed circle of Culture. A portrait of the pugilist by Alonzo V. Lewis, of Seattle, hangs in an exhibition of Western art at the Kansas City Art Institute, between a Spring Landscape and Indian Summer. The director of the Institute is in two minds about it. His first emotion was that "art was being degraded"; his second that "boxing is a man's game and a natural occupation " and therefore presumably as worthy of perpetuation in oil as any other slice of life. There is ample precedent; the Luxembourg...
...attitude shown by these letters is by no means universal among Negroes. Some members of his own race freely condemned the pugilist Johnson for marrying a " white." It was also one of the planks in the platform of the once popular Marcus Garvey, now convicted of fraud, that Negroes should not contract mixed marriages...
Since the forcible ejection of pugilist Siki from the New York Bar in Paris, discussion of Negro rights has become serious. Even the Chamber of Deputies is going to discuss the question of whether a café proprietor has the right to eject black Frenchmen...
Georges Carpentier, gentleman boxer and, incidentally, champion pugilist of Europe, went up against Battling Siki, leopard-like negro Senegalese, with the only result that could reasonably have been expected. Not quite that, perhaps--since one might have figured the Frenchman would be killed, and he wasn...