Word: corkscrew
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...That Benny's as crooked as a corkscrew's shadow. He's lower than a snail's outlook...
...away from his father's Indiana farm at 13 . . . saloon brawls and street fights ... the first time he knocked out a man with his famed "corkscrew punch" (glorified left hook) and decided to call himself Kid McCoy . . . the night in 1896 when he stopped Tommy Ryan, world's welterweight champion . . . champagne suppers at Delmonico's . . . fights he threw and the chicanery he got away with . . . the carpet tacks he dumped into the ring to agonize a barefoot opponent in South Africa . . . early days of the century when U. S. sportswriters hailed him as the Real McCoy...