Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other hand, we do like our English diluted. A few words here and there in italics harm no one and give the reader a good deal of innocent pleasure. French is the most accustomed seasoning. A good round French oath makes all the difference, particularly in a detective story. Arsene Lupin is nowhere so redoubtable as where he breaks into his native idiom. A good part of the art of translation consists in knowing when not to translate. The result is that practically any current translation from the French reads like a perfumery advertisement on a theatre program...
...Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, Johnny Shugrue bumped his nose on Pal Moran's fist in the first round of their prospective twelve. Blood-flow external and internal from the broken nose blinded him. In the fifth round the referee called the bout on account of Shugrue's optical darkness. When the end came, he was a vivid study in red. Moran punched and punctured at the same time...
Notwithstanding Shugrue's unlucky disability in the first round, it was obvious Moran had not met his match. The latter's improvement since his illness a year ago is little short of startling. With the possible exception of Lew Tendler in 1922, he is the most logical contender in several years for the throne of Lightweight Champion Benny Leonard. Unhappily for him, Benny's habit is to render contenders decidedly illogical in actual combat. Moran and Leonard will probably meet next Summer in an outdoor fight...
...Miske, 29, St. Paul heavyweight pugilist, of acute Bright's disease, in Minneapolis. In 114 fights he was knocked out only once- by Jack Dempsey at Benton Harbor, Mich., in 1920. His last fight was with Bill Brennan,six weeks ago. He knocked Brennan out in the fourth round. In 1920, when attacked by Bright's disease for the first time, he said: "If I am going to die, it might as well happen in the ring as in bed. Tell me what to do and I will beat this sickness...
...Freshman class and seek to show him in a personal way the advantages of social service and to persuade him to under take it. After the Freshman has once enrolled he will communicate directly with the settlement house at which he is to serve instead of through the round about medium of the Phillips Brooks House Association...