Word: brawle
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...popped a face-to-face verbal brawl between Virginia's pinchfist Harry Byrd, hot opponent of pensions, and Wyoming's Joseph O'Mahoney, who stressed the fact that he had been "absent" when the bill passed. O'Mahoney roared that Congress was being "smeared" as a "conglomeration of grab-seeking individuals.'' Shouted Byrd: "I have never smeared the members of Congress. . . . The Senator shows ignorance...
...Negro. The love story of the lame beggar, Porgy, and his sultry Bess is the main theme, which is surrounded with the life in Catfish Row, its joys and sorrows, its day to day gayety and the sudden tragedies springing from a storm at sea or a crap-game brawl. In the first scene the huge stevedore, Crown, with his blood on fire by liquor and the caresses of Bess, his woman, kills a man and then flees from the white man's justice leaving Bess to seek refuge with Porgy. Then comes one of the most mystic scenes ever...
Just heard over the radio that those women who style themselves "American mothers" have staged another brawl, this time including the British Ambassador in their publicity...
...always been forthright in his tactics. In Shanghai in 1940, when British and Italian Marines began to brawl, Tommy Hart didn't wait to consult the Japanese Admiral, who regarded the settlement as his preserve. He went to work on the British and Italian commanders, within a few hours had a twelve-man inter-allied patrol keeping peace throughout Shanghai. The patrol was made up of four Seaforth Highlanders, four Italian Marines, four U.S. Navy men, who were tactfully planted in the middle of the group...
...story went that the famous Nannie, recently made an honorary editor of the "Advocate," would be here for the game, and would liven up the magazine's brawl after the fray. In fact, the report was so persistent that a young man, not more than 10 years old, waited for over two hours outside of the "Advocate's" offices on Mount Auburn Street on the chance of getting a look at the famous profile...