Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That is how some people thought it would be when it was announced that Mickey Walker, world's welterweight champion, was to fight Dave Shade, the Californian who had been three years trying to pick just this scrap, before Tex Rickard accommodated him and fixed the place of the bout in the Yankee Stadium in New York City...
Some feared that Walker would be weakened in making the weight of 147 pounds, and some thought Shade's weaving, twisting, doubled-up way of fighting, with his stiff punch and swift attack, would be too much for the Champion...
...Walker stepped into the ring in the best of health and outfought his opponent. He fought as he has not fought since three years ago when he whipped Jack Britton in Madison Square Garden. He battered Shade and weakened him. He punched the elasticity out of Shade's body, and he ripped open his face. In the last round of the 15 allotted he all but knocked Shade...
...gloves and began to weave about each other, glaring. Since the spring evening upon which they had simultaneously established their reputations, Berlenbach had been disqualified for stalling in a bout against Tony Marullo (TIME, July 27), and Slattery been knocked unconscious by a blow from the fist of David Shade, welterweight (TIME, July 13). The stalling, many thought was quite to be expected from a onetime taxidriver; the knockout was a regrettable accident. Nevertheless, as the two squared off, not a few, who had learned through experience the pathetic fallacy of style, had their money on Berlenbach...
...Rome, a smiling American woman in street costume approached the door of the basilica Santa Maria Maggiore. She stopped before it, a shade of anxiety passed over her features; she turned away and left. Two others repeated the same sequence of emotions. On the door was posted a notice...