Word: toweling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...started a blow which began in the resin of the floor, described a long overhand arc, terminated on the jaw of James Slattery. Down he went, his faun smile gone, struggled up again, went down again, struggled up again, dropped again. Out of his corner flew a great white towel...
...gore. After three minutes intercourse with the departed. I dried my hands on my handkerchief and arrived late for my next class. Since that time, when feeling particularly optimistic. I have tried these gorgeous white elephants, but always with the same result. My handkerchief is somewhat small for a towel and I should like to recommend that these machines be turned over in Margery wherewith in frighten visitors to her seances, and some plebeian towels be substituted in their stead. Gurdon S. Howe...
...towel- soggy, bloodstained, ragged-sailed over the top rope of the fight ring in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. Sock! it landed on the canvas, right at the heels of a battered little man with a streaming gash over his right eye. The little man was rocking to and fro under showers of blows from a furious, compact human whirlwind that flew now at his head, now at his ribs, now at his jaw, now at his pounding heart...
...referee, sorry for the battered little man, had been watching for the towel. As it struck, he stepped between the fighters. Friends rushed to the little man - he was a Featherweight Danny Kramer of Philadelphia- and helped him to his corner, beaten. The human whirlwind- he was Featherweight Louis ("Kid") Kaplan of Meriden, Conn.-stood panting but jubilant while they raised his right hand aloft and declared that, by a technical knockout, he was winner, he was world's featherweight champion...
Between rounds, towel-flappers and sponge-squeezers sprang through the ropes to revive, rehearten Little Old Man Ledoux. Over these loomed a being, tall, statuesque, godlike...