Word: siki
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Battling Siki: "I was obliged to postpone my match with the British middleweight Moore because my arm was bitten by a lion I was trying to tame...
...Battling Siki: " In Paris, I walked into Maxim's for dinner, leading a lion on a leash. Exeunt omnes! Later the diners got courage enough to return and buy me champagne. Still later those of them who were most jovial patted my lion...
Said McTigue in a letter to his manager: "I am sure I will K. O. Carpentier and then for Tunney. I fooled all the wise fellows here [in Dublin] who thought Siki would...
...boots. Deliberately false advertising, that's what it is.' " General Pershing: "I issued an order that the Army should improve its style in correspondence. Conciseness, brevity, careful wording, correct paragraphing and the personal touch-these things make the perfect letter, and the perfect letter-writer." Battling Siki: "Because I punched the face of a waiter in a cafe, a Paris newspaper suggested that 'in the name of all organizations calling for good sportsmanship, Siki be captured, chained and sent back to his native Senegal, where he can enjoy himself with the rest of the savages." Florence Reed...
Fallen but still the idol of France is Georges Carpentier. At an American Legion benefit the crowded Crique de Paris rose to shout their greeting. The ovation lasted through his sparring match and until the dressing room had closed its door upon him. Battling Siki, who knocked out Carpentier for the world's light-heavyweight championship on September 24, entered the same ring amid hoots and hisses...