Word: wolfing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Bosnian Moslem Mehmed Spaho strutting last week as Minister of Communications. The Croats, traditionally suppressed and embittered boycotters of every government at Belgrade, were for once benevolently on the fence, inclined to give Premier Stoyadinovitch a chance to prove his protestations that he is not just another Serbian wolf in politician's clothing. Said the new Premier at his debut last week before the Skupshtina: "The last words of Yugoslavia's great martyred King Alexander constitute my Government's program: 'Protect Yugoslavia...
...Burly, bone-crunching Danno O'Mahoney: a wrestling bout with Ben Tenario ("Chief Little Wolf") ; in 28 min. 28 sec.; in Manhattan. Champion O'Mahoney rocked the Navajo Indian in a cradle roll, hurled him to the mat with an Irish whip, polished off the bout with a boa-constrictor body hold...
Because most wrestling addicts firmly believe their favorite sport to be dishonestly conducted and because Heavyweight Champion Jim Londos was scheduled to climax his season with a widely ballyhooed charity match against Ben Tenario ("Chief Little Wolf"), no one paid much attention to Londos' bout with a young Irishman named Danno O'Mahoney last week except O'Mahoney and 30,000 Bostonians who crowded Fenway Park to watch it. An agreement between the wrestlers stated that if the bout, originally billed as two out of three falls, lasted more than an hour, the first to gain...
...WOLF AT THE DOOR-Robert Francis-Houghton Mifflin...
...Green Mansions and Kenneth Grahame's The Golden Age. Author Alain Fournier was killed in the War, and The Wanderer was his only book, but that his influence was still alive in France was shown last week, with the U. S. publication of "Robert Francis' " The Wolf at the Door (original title: La Grange aux Trois Belles). As different as could be from such trail-blazing contemporaries as Louis-Ferdinand Celine (Journey to the End of the Night) and Andre Malraux (Man's Fate), "Robert Francis" (real name: Jean Godmé) follows his romantic bypath...