Word: rafting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...livery-stable keeper's son. His father intended him for the priesthood, but he crossed himself and went out to lick the boys. His first fight was with Joe Choinyski, whom he calls "one of the gamest and best fighters that ever lived"-a slugging match on a raft in San Francisco Bay. Then he made a wreck out of Jake Kilrain, was matched with John L. Sullivan, the Strong Boy of Boston. Sullivan "fell hopelessly on the ground, on his stomach, and rolled over on his back." After that battle, Corbett made milk famous all over the world...
...with good taste as soon as possible. Instead of coming down to the level of the audience with a rendition of "Barney Google," the Glee Club will put in practise the theory of educating the audience up to its level. If moving picture producers, radio story-tellers, and the raft of authors of children's books would only do the same, how many "bromides" would the world be spared...