Word: towel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...octoroon from Memphis, Tenn., identified the body in the morgue. She, Mrs. Lillian Werner Phal, legally married to Siki in 1924, bound up her head in a wet towel and told reporters about her husband. She did not dwell upon his recent carousals-that he was arrested five months ago for attempting to kill a policeman with a knife; that the U. S. Government has for some time been trying anxiously to deport him, and the French Government as anxiously refusing to take him back. Instead, she spoke with affection of his domestic qualities...
...minutes and two seconds 215 pounds of Negro Harry Wills laced, slashed and uppercutted at 203 pounds of White Floyd Johnson, lowan fisticuffer. Then Johnson's seconds flirted a white towel-tossed it onto the canvas lest the "Brown Panther" should massacre their lowite. Ten thousand fight fans trooped out of Newark Armory (N. J.) after having seen exactly what they had expected-one of the most savage fights ever witnessed in the East. Pugilist Wills swelled out his chest of rippled ebony...
Pausing with the towel at his ear, he again looked out. There, in an automobile surrounded by six motorcycles, sat the Chief of Police; behind this entourage a group of bandsmen in blue coats with fine shiny instruments at their lips were striking up Dixie. It was all as he had imagined it a thousand times. Those horns had blared, that mighty shout unfurled its cloudy splendors in his dreams a thousand times; he had always had a feeling that some day it would come...
...umpire's chair, removed, for the first time at Glencoe, his shaggy sweater. He called for a pitcher of ice-water, dashed its contents over his head. Rolling up his sleeves, he prepared to serve. "Ooh," gasped the crowd. Tilden put down his rocket, called for a towel that he might dry his hands. A famed actress cried out helplessly: "That man is immortal." Then, deliberately, he served. A great cheer went up. Kinsey, unnerved by this mummery, bungled; superbly the champion swept up the set, the victory...
...Goodrich tires," yelled a hopeful voice from the cheap seats. But Goodrich did not. tire. In the second round, he repeated his merciless operations, when suddenly Loayzo began to hop about on one foot with the deranged, sickening absurdity of one whose mind and nerves have become disconnected. A towel flew from his corner; medical examination revealed that his ankle had been fractured. The decision, the World's Lightweight Championship, went to Goodrich...