Word: ribbing
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...gong, Carnera ran out of his corner as lightly as a nautch girl and shoved a huge left at Maloney, who ducked. Maloney kept trying to hit the spot on Carnera's torso where a clean adhesive bandage marked the cracked rib. "Keep away, Jim," yelled the crowd, and Maloney obeyed, sometimes slapping the plaster, or standing on tiptoes to reach Carnera's face with a roundhouse swing. Although he was eight inches shorter he only fouled the brobdingnag once and then held out his gloves in apology. Carnera danced through eight rounds swinging ponderously, getting...
...Golf Association's new ball-.07 oz. lighter, .06 in. bigger- has been official. Golfers who have continued to use the 1.62-oz. 1.62-in. "old" ball have been using a tool of the game as illegitimate now as the sand-wedge or the deep-scored rib-faced iron. But many a player has so continued, waiting for tournament golfers, who had to use the new ball, to give some indication of whether it really took distance off shots, was harder to control. Last week the Professional Golfers Association published a tabulation of what 16 famed pros have done...
...himself a financier. On the side and from time to time he also chaffs men of less strawy mold, notably Banker Charles Edwin Mitchell (National City) for his extremely bullish utterances, his apparent unawareness of what was going on, just before the late great stockmarket crash. Otto Munson, umbrella-rib manufacturer, sells his business for $20,000 and buys everything he can on margin. Unable to go wrong in the kind of market he has to deal with, he begins to clean up, and before a year is out is worth (on paper) over a million. Of not particularly stern...
Rescuers found Segrave half floating in his life-preserver. His arms were broken, a thigh and rib were fractured, a lung was punctured. He died that night, happy in the knowledge that the record was his. His mechanic was drowned. His engineer was badly hurt...
...Harry Lauder, Scottish clownster, stepped out of a bath tub in a Chicago hotel, slid, flip-flopped, broke his right ninth rib. Continuing to fulfill remunerative engagements, he said: "Bathrooms be a wee bit dangerous at times...