Word: charleye
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...Baltimore two young Chinese, dressed in department store clothes, entered a restaurant, ordered a meal of rice and soup. The cook, one Charley Lee, withdrew to prepare it. To the proprietor, who sat beaming behind his counter, one of the men beckoned with a rolled newspaper; he approached. When he had come to within a yard of the table, the fellow dropped his paper; the other fired. Lee rushed from the kitchen; the murderers were gone, his employer was dead. A bubble of blood from his lips incarnadined the newspaper...
...Hebrew lean as a knife-blade was introduced to a squat Italian. Instantly the Italian tried to hit the Hebrew in the face. A furious scuffle ensued, continued. Some twelve minutes later a doctor was bending anxiously above the Italian-one Edward Shea of Chicago-while the Hebrew-Charley ("Phil") Rosenberg- remained bantamweight champion of the world. It had been an unusual fight for the reason that Rosenberg, though cannier than his challenger, disdained to employ the artful dodges of science, but traded punches with the wild-eyed, bloody-mouthed, berserk Shea. Many who saw the little men belabor each...
...Charley's Aunt. Oldest subscribers will probably recall their ringing hilarity when this veteran first came to town- Manhattan, Little Rock or East Aurora. Although statistics are not at hand, it has almost certainly been the most popular of modern plays. For 20 years or more, scarcely a week has become history without some company somewhere painting its title on its varying shingle. The play is farce, dealing with the impersonation by an undergraduate of an elderly lady to act in the capacity of chaperon at a college party. The current company is by no means distinguished. The horseplay...
...obstinate, fantastic courage that sometimes animates beaten men, he began to lash out furiously, to force his victorious but weary opponent to duck, cover up, retreat. No use; his arms were slack with fatigue. At the end of the 15th round, the referee lifted the hand of the challenger, Charley ("Phil") Rosenberg, thus giving him the title of the champion, Eddie ("Cannoonball") Martin (real name Edward Martina...
...Charley's Aunt is probably one of the most famous plays that was ever produced. For over 30 years, England has not been without at least one company performing its absurdities. As nearly everyone knows, it depicts the ridiculous consequences of an Oxford undergraduate's dressing up to impersonate an elderly chaperon. As played by Sydney Chaplin (Charlie's brother) the picture version is hearty broad farce. Exacting observers noted that much of it was old stuff; they noted also that the audience seemed steadily delighted...