Word: toeholds
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...Second Empire fell, young Dr. Clemenceau?for like his father, grandfather and great-grandfather he was an M.D.?seized every toehold to scramble up in the third republic. Poor patients helped to get their medico chosen Mayor of disreputable Montmartre, later a deputy to the National Assembly. In 1880 he founded La Justice, first of the string of Clemenceau news sheets which really made his fame. As leader of the extreme left radicals he became "the wrecker of cabinets"?is said to have clawed down 18 prime ministers...
Then, taking up various of his holds, Munn explained them to the crowd, one by one, demonstrating the while on Eastman. After illustrating the "Three Point Contact Hold," the "Double Wrist Lock," the toehold, and the headlock, he reproduced his famous bout with Strangler Lewis, showing how each one of his three falls was obtained...