Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took eleven hard-tackling New York cops to arrest famed Drop-Kicker Charles C. Brickley, 58, Harvard All-America (1912-13) and his 30-year-old son, Charles Brickley Jr., during an early-morning brawl in a Manhattan restaurant. According to testimony, the fight started when Brickley overheard someone say: "Is that old bald-headed so-and-so Charlie Brickley, the football player...
...near the Hudson River. In a kind of communal living arrangement, the men eat together, sleep in dormitories, earn $1 pocket money after the first week, $2 after the second, and eventually up to $15. There is an Alcoholics Anonymous group at the center, so that the men can fight together against the temptations of rum. There is a recreation room on the second floor with a television set, which eliminates one excuse for going to a neighborhood bar. Life's derelicts are put to work mending old clothes, fixing broken furniture and radio sets-and get back...
Says the commissioner: "We haven't got the opposition we once had when we were kicked around . . . and our people had to fight for the right to preach in the streets. That kind of opposition bred the courage of lions...
...army had to change with the times, as the Devil himself changed, or lose the fight. In a modern world, the kind of social welfare program over which Ernest Pugmire presides is a sounder attack against the enemy than all the processions General Booth might lead today through Sheffield, and sounder than street-corner revivals. Ernest Pugmire's kind of attack also requires courage, and a Christian's stubborn patience and faith...
Said Board Secretary A. T. L. Watkins: ". . . There are too many scenes of torture and novel means of killing . . . One or two blows in a fight should be sufficient. When it comes to a man's hands being held behind his back while his face is smashed to pulp, we draw the line...