Word: roundly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foreign heavyweights" grappled, tugged and heaved. Towering John Pesak had wrestled his way half round the world from Nebraska. Husky Joe Zikmund, billed as the "Polish Pachy-derm," tipped the beam at 218 pounds. Statesman Hughes slipped into his ringside seat just as Poland heaved Nebraska for a mighty thumping fall...
...spent last Monday going around the London Parks looking for suitable places where children may get all the sun they want. ... I hope to arrange for sun bathing by the time next summer comes round...
...Next round Nebraska retaliated, tried a painful toe-twist on Poland. Soon the match grew really ugly. Joyous wrestling fans roared encouragement to both "for-eigners," completely forgot the distinguished presence of Statesman Hughes. Suddenly they remembered with a gasp. Directly in front of the onetime Prime Minister's seat grappling Nebraska got an annihilating hold, tautened mighty muscles and hurled ponderous Poland bodily through the ropes-218 pounds of beef and bone straight at the lap of little Billy Hughes...
...about the same time a clerk in the Ministry of Finance entered the round sum of two million drachmas ($26,000) in his ledger under the heading Secret Government: Expenditures. News organs throughout Greece were warned by the official censor to publish no account of the affair. Friends of Senator Gheka found him uncommunicative...
...confused with Francesco de Pinedo, Italian round-the-world flyer, is Francisco de Pineda, strong-armed Cuban convict. A confessed murderer serving a life term, Convict de Pineda is the Republic of Cuba's official death-dealer. He rejoices in the title of "Minister of Executions." Last week he was ordered to execute a former friend for a crime in which the Minister of Executions himself had admittedly been an accomplice...