Word: wrestler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have long held the record for borderline humor. In Comedian Berle is to be found the acme of hysterical vulgarity. His funniest printable jape is introducing the audience to Jim Londos. and then finding that he has mistaken an unknown lady in the third row. for the onetime champion wrestler (see p. 22). While one part of the audience blushes and the other part guffaws. Comedian Berle proceeds to imitate a person of uncertain gender, quip about the show girls' fundaments, shout depraved announcements into a loudspeaker. Less mad than Jimmy Durante, less subtle than Willie Howard, Comedian Berle...
...Harpo to say, she had him try some of his grandfather's tricks. When the Marxes were performing in Waukegan, Ill., they were surprised to hear, in the orchestra pit, the piano playing of their brother Chico. He had been touring the country as a piano player and wrestler. At Waukegan, Chico, Zeppo, Gummo and Groucho made their closest approach to an academic career in an act called "Fun in Hi-Skule." On the Sullivan-Considine circuit they toured with Charlie Chaplin, gave him good advice about taking a $100 weekly contract with the Keystone Cinema Company...
...Paddy Mack, Boston wrestler: a bout with one Mustapha Pasha; when a spectator tossed a lighted cigaret into Mustapha Pasha's open mouth, causing him to squeal, choke, lie flat on his back; in Hollywood...
...Bill' was short of kindlings and therefore invited one who could and did enjoy chopping. We however, do not believe this vile rumor." The Times did believe and report that "Big Bill" and Szabo engaged in a friendly bout on the lake shore, that "Big Bill" hurled the wrestler into the water before being downed...
Robert Friedrich ("Strangler") Lewis is the oldest able professional wrestler in the U. S. He is almost 50, with the figure of a porpoise, a partially bald head, swollen ears and pig-eyes dulled by trachoma. Last week Strangler Lewis waddled proudly into a New York ring for a match with Richard Shikat, a limber and powerful young German who has been trying to get a return match for the title ever since Champion Jim Londos won it from him two years ago. The match between Shikat and Lewis was important because Champion Londos had been ordered...