Word: angeling
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...bull knocked-out a farmer in the 5th round. The bull's name was Luis Angel Firpo of the Argentine. The farmers Christian name is unknown. But he is a North American and his sirname is Lodge. "Fat Farmer Lodge," he is called...
...Luis Angel Firpo, "Pampas bull": "Under my signature in The New York World, I wrote that on the 14th of September [the night I fought Dempsey] I was not even in condition to face a sick...
...achieves a Messianic message without driving one's tear ducts bankrupt. H. G. Wells and St. John Ervine, in dramatizing Wells' early novel of the same name, have discarded much of its pungent satire, playing safe with more drama. They set forth the earthly visit of an angel, intent on spreading sweetness and light, who finds himself gradually steeped in sticky mortality. He seeks tolerance for a lovelorn housemaid left with a war baby, lashes a war profiteer who forces his attentions on her, agitates the lady of the manor hitherto accustomed to agitating others...
Finally the constricted English village whose smug hyprocrisy has been shattered by the angel decides he must go. He does, in an Elijah-like blaze of glory, being burnt while saving the housemaid's brat. Thereupon everything turns out to be just a dream of a country vicar, going up in smoke...
Harry Wills, Negro heavyweight of New Orleans, and Luis Angel Firpo, Pampas Bull of the Argentine, tentatively agreed to fight for a consideration of $250,000, 25% of the cinema rights to each...