Word: trod
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Confounded by gadgets, Mrs. Moore hopes some day to mistress her home. Until then she must put up with a radio loudspeaker in every room, lights flashing when the front door opens, burglar alarms going off when certain rugs are trod on. An 1899 De Dion Bouton, one of her husband's nine cars, is stored in an attic...
Last week in Boston, the 280-lb. Angel took on his first comer, Luigi Bacigalupi, 275-lbs. ringside. In the Boston Arena, 7,000 wrestling fans (twice the usual number) stood on their chairs as the Angel trod up the aisle. In the ring, Bacigalupi whanged the Angel's cowcatcher jaw with a barrage of forearm wallops. The Angel only growled, waded in, got a headlock, a full nelson, a head scissors, an armlock, and then the hold the fans were waiting for -his touted bear hug. He simply crooked his cordwood arms around Luigi's vast circumference...