Word: risked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lynch, champion bantamweight boxer of the world, had agreed to risk his title against Joe Burman, Chicagoan. The day before the fight, Lynch reported himself disabled. Asked how that happened, he stated that in stepping from a taxi his feet had become entangled with his pet collie, he had lost his equilibrium, collapsed upon the sidewalk, arisen with a subglenoid dislocation of the shoulder...
...said at the risk of being trite, that the audience truly compensated in appreciation for what it jacked in numbers...
Walter Hampden. This actor, whose success with Hamlet and Macbeth struck the spark which burst into a blaze of Shakespeare last Winter, will risk the dangerous experiment of a New York repertory season. His plans already include The Black Flag, a pirate play by A. E. Thomas; six of Shakespeare's, including Othello; The Ring, a play based on Browning's The Ring and the Book. Carroll McComas will be his leading lady, with Pedro de Cordoba playing second to Mr. Hampden...
Deputy Misuri, who put the Constitution above the Fascisti, at risk of his life...
...were a child in a London County Council school and you were asked: " My next door neighbor has had three visitors: first, a doctor called, then a lawyer, and then a clergyman. What do you think has been happening there ? " you would run considerable risk by replying that your neighbor was coming down in the world, or that she was having people to dinner. But if you replied that there had probably been a death you might display normal intelligence for the age of 13. Or you might...