Word: sergo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...survivors of 23,000 aspirants from 26 midwestern and southern States who entered the first preliminaries four months before. The Europeans (four Germans, one Italian, Pole, Irishman and Finn) were the cream of the continent. They had two Olympic champions: Heavyweight Herbert Runge of Germany and Bantamweight Ulderico Sergo of Italy...
...Sergo, a factory worker in his native Fiume, was the boxer the crowd had come chiefly to see. No. 1 amateur bantamweight of the world, his reputation of being invincible was backed up by over 100 victories in European matches in the last three years. Under Italy's Federazione Pugilistica, Sergo, like most Fascist fighters, had received top-notch instruction, had the benefit of year-round competition, including performances all over Europe, where amateur boxing is even more popular than it is in the U. S. Chicago fans, remembering well the drubbing he gave their favorite, Frank Kainrath...
Underdog Kainrath, Chicago team captain and a violinist in his spare time, did not let his townsmen down. With grim determination, he made the bantamweight match the most exciting of the evening. Ducking Sergo's wild swings and peppering him with well-timed punches and counterpunches, Chicago's Kainrath clearly won all three rounds...
...last-named composer in represented by his famous Third or "Eroica" Symphony which was played last weekend in Boston during the Friday and Saturday series. In contrast to this great work is a recent orchestral suite by the Russian musician, Sergo Prokefloff, who is well known for both his composing and pianoforte abilities. This particular suite is an arrangement of his incidental music to the Soviet film, "Lieutenant Kije," and is grouped into five movements of a light and satirical mood. The film was produced in the U. S. S. R. in 1933 and the music is being heard...
...biggest funeral since Lenin's" was promptly got under way for "Sergo"-Stalin's nickname for Ordzhonikidze. Other programs were switched off and Soviet radio stations broadcast elaborate eulogies of Sergo. Accompanied by an endless dirge, a solemn death watch over the body was begun, the Dictator himself joining in a guard which was changed every few hours, maintained day & night, with Big Reds clamoring for the honor of standing at the four corners of the bier while tens of thousands shuffled past...