Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when you swing, swing like this," said Mr. Greenberg, swinging like that, but ending the stroke with a dull thud...
...ducked. Maloney kept trying to hit the spot on Carnera's torso where a clean adhesive bandage marked the cracked rib. "Keep away, Jim," yelled the crowd, and Maloney obeyed, sometimes slapping the plaster, or standing on tiptoes to reach Carnera's face with a roundhouse swing. Although he was eight inches shorter he only fouled the brobdingnag once and then held out his gloves in apology. Carnera danced through eight rounds swinging ponderously, getting in a telling left once in a while but no good rights. The crowd was bored. In the last two rounds Carnera tired...
Raging lions snuff at prostrate heroines, or are driven from their kill by a famine-stricken cast. Serpents lazily uncoil from a most tropical-looking tree, and plop down a scant foot or so behind the ragged hero. Horn and his gun-bearer, Renchero, swing deftly over a pool alive with crocodiles, on a dangling vine. "And through this mighty drama of a primitive world runs the beautiful love romance of a boy and girl that grips the heart"--so runs the come-hither phraseology of the advertising manager...
That this reactionary flood should have swept away the old sportsmanship is to be deplored, but because it is an extreme swing of the pendulum, we sincerely, trust that it will not be long before the formerly cherished standards return. Certainly at Princeton, the professionalized attitude toward teams seems distinctly out of place and unwarranted, despite the trend of the times. It is not too much to suppose that Princeton spectators are still innately gentlemen and, as gentlemen, sportsmen in the finest meaning of the word. --Dally Princetonian...
...ogreish face and huge frame have gotten him many cinema jobs, made one John Kilonis so angry in a wrestling match that Kilonis hit Montana with his fist. Montana defended himself, knocked Kilonis across the ring. Referee Cyclone Fox declared Montana winner on a foul. Kilonis took a swing at Cyclone Fox. Montana helped Fox. Spectators jumped into the ring to help Kilonis. More spectators jumped in to help Montana. Riot and pandemonium followed. No one was seriously hurt. Some of Montana's pictures: Show of Shows; Good Morning, Judge; How to Handle Women...