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Both the fund of knowledge and vocabulary of the author are redolent of the woods, the swamps, and the plantation. Many chapters are titled with place-names, "Spaniard's Grave," "Millway Run," "The Copse," "The Ridge," "Sweetgum Spinney," "The Savannah," The hounds are catalogued, the author finding in the music of their names excuse for theft from Lyly, Burton, and Walt Whitman; "Bluebell and Burly, . . Old Drum, . . Rouster, . . Bugler, Fifer, Bounce, Nimble, Witchcraft, Warlock, and Wisdom. . . He told over their names, softly, for their names were autumnal melody ... Ringwood, Dashwood, Robin, Patrona, Pirate, Gadabout. . . Falstaff, Rockaby, Sweetheart, Tireless, Highlander, Pibroch...
...realizing that it was the less disastrous of two unhappy experiments which he had attempted simultaneously. Few hours before the Bridge Match ended. Promoter Jacobs arrived in New York from Cuba, where he had gone intending to complete arrangements for a Havana fight between Negro Joe Louis and Spaniard Isidore Gastanaga. Instead of completing arrangements for the fight, Promoter Jacobs took a hurried glance at what he later described as "a bodyguard of six machine-gunners" sent to meet his plane, promptly decided that conditions in Cuba were too unsettled for major prizefight ventures, postponed Louis v. Gastanaga indefinitely, returned...
...with a punching bag instead of a real, live human like Paulino Uzcudun. But neither fox hunters nor fight fans get full fun out of bags, which was the only reason for 20,000 people paying $128,000 to see an animated bronze statue pitted against a lumpy Spaniard a full decade past his prime. The billing was that nobody had knocked out Paulino Uzcudun in all his 36 years. The betting was in what round Louis would do it. Money wiser than most sportswriters fancied Round Four. Just as the professional gamblers had anticipated, Round Four...
Like a dentist trying to get his pliers into the mouth of a terrified, wriggling patient, Louis stalked around the ring watching the bobbing head and flailing elbows of Uzcudun. waiting for the moment when the Spaniard's jaw would offer a fleeting target. The moment finally arrived. The blow that ended the fight was the sort that a fat bartender lays into an objectionable drunk. Its progress was slow, inevitable, evident to all present. It laid Uzcudun flat on his back. It also opened his cheek, drove one of his teeth through...
...centre rests entirely on the work of three great painters: Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez, Domenico Theotocopuli (El Greco), Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes. Of the three, Velazquez was of Portuguese descent and Theotocopuli a Greek, which leaves the glory of Spanish art to just one thoroughgoing Spaniard, Goya...