Word: wrestler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Auer and Savo dabble in the occult. House impersonates an English noblewoman, in his spare moments trains Fall Guy Lahr for a wrestling bout. Actress Brady is properly taken in. Best shots: Mummer Savo bestowing an imaginary wedding present with all the airy panoply of pantomime; Swami Auer winning Wrestler Lahr's bout for him with levitation's artful aid; Barytone Lahr's "Song of the Woodman" ("What do we chop when we chop a tre-e-e? Buckets for the well, poles for American Tel. and Tel. . . . The better mouse trap, the movie mag, the mast...
Only sure berths secured now are in the unlimited and 175-1b. classes. Probably the brainiest wrestler on the squad, heavyweight Bill Glendinning thrilled a crowd of 1000 last March, when he toppled football Captain Charlie Toll of Princeton who had a 45 pound advantage. Short, stocky he has a good chance to gain Intercollegiate laurels in his last season here, if he can throw Pickett of the Elis who in March handed him his only defeat...
...smoky Turner's Arena in Washington one night last week applause greeted Wrestler Leo Mortensen of Glendale, Calif. - also known as "Milo the Strong Man" - as he skillfully pinned the shoul ders of one Gene Bowman to the mat. A few minutes later a much stronger burst of applause greeted Wrestler Mortensen's sturdy sister Clara as, clad in a uniform which resembled a two-piece bathing suit, she climbed into the ring for a feature match with chunky Maria Gardini. After one fall apiece, Wrestler Mortensen, only moderately flushed by her exertions, suddenly lifted Wrestler Gardini over...
...Mortensen was defending the "championship" which she claims to hold among the 60 women professionals now adays engaged in trying to revive what was once a standard U. S. sport. In the days of the great Cora Livingstone (now the wife of Boston's Promoter Paul Bowser), "lady wrestlers" wore black tights and spangled leotards, appeared regularly in urban variety houses and the Police Gazette. Squarejawed, blonde Wrestler Mortensen does neither. Now 21, she has been a professional wrestler off & on since she was seven, when her father, who used to wrestle in his native Denmark, matched her with...
...smaller statues, a torso and a so-called Narcissus, and two fine fragments showing a battle of Greeks and Amazons from a Roman sarcophagus of the third century A. D. In the remaining spaces are grouped several Attic grave reliefs and a number of heads, notably a wrestler, a Grecian matron, and a woman of Palmyra. Against the window is an urn, a third century lekythos...