Word: fisticuffs
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...internal dispute. A further political complication was the fact that one of the A. F. of L. Executive Council's bitterest enemies of industrial unionism, President William L. Hutcheson of United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, who hates Leader Lewis not only for his ideas but for the fisticuff Lewis dealt him at the last A. F. of L. convention (TIME, Oct. 28), was chairman of the Republican Labor committee in the 1932 campaign, expects to do the same job this year...
...steps of the house were five Senators and six Representatives, Democrats all, who had just arrived from Washington for a party conference with their national leader. The Communists shook fists, hooted, yelled. The Congressmen beat a quick retreat inside the Roosevelt home. The police with many a fisticuff and nightstick thwack cleared East 68th Street. All was again quiet when Mr. Roosevelt and his visitors settled down comfortably in an upstairs study for a heart-to-heart talk...
...front-line action, are now unscarred, robust men in the prime of life. Therefore when 70,000 of them get together to play soldier again it is like a gigantic college reunion, gay, colorful, sometimes ribald. Last week hoodlums took advantage of the occasion to overturn motors, build bonfires, fisticuff in the streets. Lo-cal hospitals treated 358 persons for liquor poisoning; one Legionary and his wife died of this cause. Patients were treated for wounds contracted from being hit by, sitting on, falling on, tripping on, flasks. Massachusetts General Hospital ran out of headache powders...
Second-rate fish, also used for training, come from the aquariums of about 1,000 amateur breeders in Siam. Trainer fish constantly have their bodies mutilated as do U. S. fisticuff trainers. Their advantage over their U. S. equivalents: they can regenerate broken parts...
...said "Leave us sit down a minute, Tommy." We will not go bail for its absolute authenticity, but it is a nice little addition to the saga; and if true, it goes to prove once more that history repeats itself. Tommy Loughran, out on his feet in his recent fisticuff with "Boston Jack" Sharkey, is reported to have said "Leave us sit down a minute, Jack". Like Bowman...