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...bout between Eddle Davis and Stewart in the 155-pound class developed into a slug-fest in the last round. Stewart, the more finished boxer, was held to a draw...
...Secretary Noon to warn pursuing police that the boardmen were still in their automobile. Finding a raised drawbridge in their path, they doubled back, sped unharmed through the helpless posse. The police caught up again, burst their quarry's rear tires with a blast of bullets. A slug plowed through Boardman Sykes' thigh, pinked Boardman Stephens...
Humblest passer-by is Alan Squier (Leslie Howard, taking temporary leave of the cinema to keep from "going stale") A young intellectual tired of it all, he makes complete arrangements with Duke Mantee to "put the slug on him" so that the Maples' daughter Gabrielle (pert Peggy Conklin of The Pursuit of Happiness) can collect his insurance and go to France...
...young daughter and after certain vicissitudes marches bravely off to war. Bill Sikes is expelled for torturing young Carmichael who achieves top place in the form. Bill Sikes has nothing against young Carmichael. He is only annoyed to find his own name in last place. Skinnymalink Jamieson, father of "Slug" Jamieson, makes the commencement speech in an outlandish Scots dialect while the ashamed "Slug" betrays him in the hope of ingratiating himself with his scornful fellows. Out of the intellectual, moral and personal involvements of the masters and the equally complicated problems of the boys, Bruce Marshall has written...
...stood balancing three lighted candles on her head in the centre ring. Across from her, Marksman Lou Morphy lifted his gun. Crack, crack, crack, out went the candles, one, two. three. Alda May Cole bowed to the applause, walked steadily out of the tent, collapsed in the passageway. Slug No. 1 had split as it shot out of the gun. Half of it had snuffed out candle No. i. The other half plunked into Alda May Cole's face, an eighth of an inch from her right...