Word: stanislaus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thing to have behind the false wall of a private vault is the boudoir of your mistress; 2) very mysterious shooting may be accomplished by planning to have the bullets, instead of striking directly, bounce off some such household object as a chandelier, umbrella stand or commode. Playwright Hugh Stanislaus Stange's thriller will appeal to small boys, but perhaps they had better not be allowed to see Miss Florence Johns's harrowing portrayal of a dope fiend...
Zbyszko v. Hearst. Stanislaus Zbyszko, ponderous wrestler, filed a $250,000 suit against Publisher William Randolph Hearst's New York American. Reason: The American had printed a gorilla's picture side-by-side with that of Wrestler Zbyszko; had commented: "Stanislaus Zbyszko ... is not fundamentally different from the gorilla in physique." Wrestler Zbyszko complained that since the event he had been "shunned and avoided by his wife, relatives, neighbors, associates and other persons...
...Murphy '31, the William Stanislaus Murphy scholarship...
...wrestler's stomach, the wrestler falls down in agony. The old man, bent nearly double, seemed tired; he staggered when he dodged the python legs. His head hung forward on his neck, but that neck was nearly as big as the head itself, for the old man was Stanislaus Zbyszko, aging Polish wrestler, But what was this ? The crowd rose, shrieking; the referee slapped the old man on the back. Zbyszko had thrown Stecher. . . . The old man got on his feet and smirked mistily at the gallery. What did he care that Stecher had won a previous fall, that...
Depressing. When Lightweight Champion Benny Leonard retired from the ring (TIME, Jan. 26) in order to sooth the declining years of his mother, the New York Boxing Commission proclaimed a tournament to see who should succeed him. Two men reached the finals. This couple-one James Goodrich (Buffalo), one Stanislaus Loayza (Chile)-fought a depressing bout last week on Long Island. In the first round, Goodrich walked over to the Chilean, hit him in the face with his right fist. Loayza fell down, got up again. Goodrich hit him in the face with his right fist, etc. This operation...