Word: superman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...between this superman, and the Kansan who, according to New Dealish Washington, doesn't know the difference between international affairs and the plow business. Minnesota, one of the pivotal States, will choose the man who "stared at the carpet, pondered a full five minutes...
...alliterated nicknames, and a match with noisy and preposterous Max Baer. Baer, like Camera, was slow, overgrown and easy to hit. Louis dealt with him the same way, except that this time the knock-out arrived in the fourth round. Louis ceased to be an animal. He became a "superman...
...include one who was reasonably quick, intelligent and courageous. Consequently, Press & public were unaware that Joe Louis had not yet learned how to defend himself from a straight right-hand punch on the jaw. Max Schmeling revealed this shocking omission in the fourth round of the fight. Superman Louis flopped down on his haunches...
...Author Carl Van Vechten, fainted dead away. Almost equally astonished, the rest of the crowd set up an angry roar. It continued, a disappointed and monotonous chant, until, in the twelfth round, long since dazed by the steady, systematic pounding of Schmeling's right fist against his jaw, Superman Louis went down again. This time, as he wriggled on the canvas, the referee counted...
...Paul Bunyan. famed superman of lumber-camp legend, had been a hockey player, he would have liked a game that was played in Montreal last week. The two teams, Detroit Red Wings and Montreal Maroons, skated onto the ice at 8:30 p. m. At the end of the three standard 20-minute periods, neither team had made a goal. Because the rules in the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup playoffs prohibit ties, they went on playing...