Word: welters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world in 1924. only one man (Ritchie Mitchell) had mussed his sleek brown hair in many a long battle. Last week in Madison Square Garden, Benny Leonard was wiping stringy thin hair out of his eyes 30 seconds after tough Jimmy McLarnin began to hit him. The pudgy Canadian welter- weight shook his head at the hardest blows Leonard's bowarms could deliver. What was left, at 36, of the cleverest boxer the lightweight division ever knew was knocked down in the second round. In the sixth he could not hold his paunch in, found his legs behaving like...
...TIME, May 2, June 13). Last week Chicago's artists swarmed into Grant Park, set their pictures on park benches or the ground and stood ready for buyers. Of the 200, able painters were Ivan Lorraine and Malvin Marr Albright, Mrs. Vivian Hoyt and Raymond Katz. In a welter of bad art, the artists were gay, buyers tolerant. Young buyers bought nudes, older ones "parlor pieces" of still life and landscape, totaling over $1,000 a day. Finally hoboes and Illinois Central commuters so jammed Grant Park that the park commissioners moved the artists oh" the grass onto...
Riots were biggest and worst in Greater Berlin, most extensive city on the European Continent (area 348 sq. mi.). While unconcerned tourists strolled Unter den Linden, the northwest suburbs of Berlin became a welter of knifing, bludgeoning and wild shots. Communists, defending their homes, ripped up paving stones, barricaded streets, stuffed their barricades with mattresses. The leader of a Fascist charge was shot dead as he went over the Red top. Police, clubbing furiously, no sooner restored order in one street than rioting broke out in the next...
...National Government." After the assassination of Premier Ki ("Old Fox") Inukai amid a welter of national resentment against "corrupt politicians" (TIME, May 23), Emperor Hirohito commanded Admiral Viscount Saito to form a new Cabinet. When this Cabinet was formed last week it proved to be a "National Government" (as in Great Britain) but almost as full of so-called "corrupt politicians" as the last Seiyukai Party Cabinet headed by "Old Fox." Specifically the Japanese national family was surprised that the Army and the Treasury have been left in exactly the same hands as before...
...welter of bombings in Tokyo and the assassination of Japan's Premier produced last week comparatively little horror, dismay or revulsion but such cool Japanese comments as these...