Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canzoneri a good pre-championship drubbing. He was also supposed to be afraid of Jackie Berg, holder of the junior welterweight title, a Britisher noted for his courage, his windmill style, his ability to block punches with his chin. In Chicago last week, Berg and Canzoneri climbed into a ring, shook hands and started work, Canzoneri boxing nicely and Berg, short-armed and unable to land his dangerous, awkward swings, performing his specialty of chin-blocking. For two rounds Canzoneri handed out punishment. At the start of the third round Canzoneri whammed a left to the Berg chin-block...
...Movies" in a poll conducted by the newspaper with the largest circulation in the U. S.,? is hopelessly miscast as a light-heavyweight fighter in a fumbled version of W. R. Burnett's novel. The novel is one of the few accurate pieces ever written about the prize ring but it has been adapted in a way that takes the life out of its characterizations, its swift exciting action. Ignoring the actual scenes of ring battles constructed by Author Burnett with so much realism, Director Tod Browning has told the story in spasms of "Oh, yeah?" dialog, within...
...high relief under the lights, one never loses the suspicion that his manager, Robert Arm- strong, an athletic young man who looks something like Jack Sharkey, could slap him over anytime for no purse. Absurdities include a gymnasium shot in which a training fighter swings wildly at his spar- ring partner's chin for several minutes in an effort to knock him out; Armstrong playing solitaire on a table set up on the floor of the gymnasium; fighters wearing their bathrobes on the scales while weigh- ing in; Ayres, after having won a fight, talking into a microphone which...
...Blas belles are short, squat, swart. In her broad, flat nose each wears a large gold ring...
...c.pt. c.pt., Staffon Angle, pt. pt., Littleton Rodge, Leonard, Winer, ld. ld., Burnham Thorndike, 2d. 2d., Peele Sweeney, Winer, Grosiane, Dennis, sd. sd., Dunnel Lay, Feins, c. c., Graham Watt, Taylor, sa. sa., Johnson Silverman, Grosiano, Hodge, 2a. 2a., Childs Tucker, 1a 1a., Hersey Dewolfe, Owens, Kuhl, o.h. o.h., Ring Redshaw, Kuhl, Owens, Brown, Leahy, i.h. i.h., Bugden...