Word: wrestler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barter blossomed. In Ashtabula a newspaper offered to print free advertisements of goods for swapping. Two commodity exchanges in Milwaukee found long lines of would-be customers waiting on their doorsteps the morning after the Wisconsin holiday went into effect. A wrestler signed a contract for a match with any opponent accepting as payment a can of tomatoes and a peck of potatoes. In Manhattan, admission to a Golden Gloves amateur boxing tournament could be had for cigars, combs, soap, chisels, groceries, kettles-anything worth 50?, plus 5? cash for taxes...
...professional sport performers none receives less respect from the Press than the wrestler. Sportwriters think nothing of calling wrestlers stupid, shady, corrupt. But any who might have assumed that a wrestler could not be libelled learned the contrary last fortnight when famed Stanislaus Zbyszko was awarded damages from Hearst's New York American...
...Theory of Evolution." Dominating the spread was a huge picture of a gorilla with sloping brow, massive chest, treelike arms and legs. Alongside the gorilla was a picture of Stanislaus Zbyszko in wrestling stance, showing his sloping brow, massive chest, etc., etc. Read the caption: "Stanislaus Zbyszko, the Wrestler, Not Fundamentally Different from the Gorilla in Physique...
...unlimited class, let go with everything they could muster. But with relentless punches, Zemurray battered his opponent, who had already had one bout that evening, to gain a well earned decision. The only technical knockout came when E. C. Ihrig 1L, who is also well-known as a wrestler, beat down B. C. McDonald...
...villain. He is, in short, a character actor and like most character actors he usually winds up (in the parlance of the type he customarily impersonates) behind the eight-ball.* In The Champ Wallace Beery was a sad superannuated pugilist. In Flesh he is a German wrestler named Polikai, gentle, generous, an easy mark for such a slick girl as Lora Nash (Karen Morley) who is the mistress of a thief (Ricardo Cortez) and the mother of a little illegitimate shaver. The thief undertakes to be Polikai's manager. Soon the whole menage-Polikai, Nash, thief and shaver...