Word: wrestler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year old blonde Princess, accompanied by her wrestler husband, Bob Gregory (pronounced ughh), and numerous Yard cops, policemen, and camp followers, was being conducted on an unannounced tour of the Library, but word of her presence spread quickly. From all parts of the building research men came running some with card catalogue trays in their hands, and finally located the Princess on the top floor examining the theatre collection...
...little over a year ago the name Sam Snead might have been that of a wrestler or a race horse to the majority of U. S. sport addicts. But to a little rural group round Hot Springs, Va., Sam Snead was the youngest of the five Snead boys, the one who always kept "within hollering distance of his mother," the one who was a golf pro over at the Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur and could drive 35 balls in a row for an average of 285 yards. Some of the drugstore hillbillies even ventured...
Swing Your Lady (Warner Bros.). When Ed (Humphrey Bogart) and his assistant Popeye (Frank McHugh) wanted to keep their wrestler Joe Skopapolous (Nat Pendleton) from finding out what they were talking about, all they had to do was spell the words. Joe knew that he was matched to wrestle a blacksmith in Plunket, Mo. on Decoration Day. What he did not know was that the blacksmith was a dame (Louise Fazenda). Out skipping rope, Joe met Sadie, paid her the sincerest tribute womanhood could inspire in him: "You're sure a big one all right...
Primo Carnera, onetime side-show freak and carnival wrestler, beat Jack Sharkey in six rounds and became heavyweight champion of the world in 1933. Fighting all over Europe and the U. S., Carnera, a bewildered, grinning hulk, probably earned a million dollars. His managers got most of it. He threw most of his away, then disappeared from U. S. sport pages after Negro Leroy Haynes knocked him out twice. Two months ago word came from France that Primo Carnera had been knocked out by a sparring partner while training for a comeback...