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Those who saw Paul Berlenbach win the world's lightheavyweight championship last year from that sly old Irish Reynard, Michael McTigue, were confident that he would not long retain it. He was no boxer, that was plain; his one weapon was a left hook that crippled metaphor, but looked as easy to dodge as a freight train. He was not pretty to look at either, being a somewhat scarred ex-taxi-driver with a thick nose, thick jaw, thick mouth and a pair of cold, slow, brutal eyes. He seemed a fighter without imagination, he ever comes up against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Berlenbach v. Delaney | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

With an abrupt, nervous sweep of his arm General Szeptycki raised and discharged his pistol. He had missed. No change appeared in the handsome, slightly mocking visage of the Count, but the gentlemen who watched him bring his lean weapon slowly into position knew that they were about to witness a tragedy. Count Skrzynski did not know how to miss; he was one of the deadliest shots in Warsaw. "One . . ." said the umpire, telling off the first of the five seconds which the Polish code allows a duelist in which to return his opponent's fire. "Two. . . ." With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Polish Cartel | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

...Very well, then!" she muttered, and smashed the boy across the shins with her weapon, three resounding whacks. "Will you answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Broomstick | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

...convenient shelter from which to shoot ink-venomed arrows at the broad target of worldly foibles. Unfortunately this system, so advantageous to the attacker, has come under the ban common to all unsportsmanlike conduct. Ever since the Arabian nights, the public has regarded invisibility as an unfair weapon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EVASION BY ANONYMITY | 5/18/1926 | See Source »

...Author. Born in Goshen, Mass., 46 years ago, Clarence Hawkes lost a leg at the age of nine and, four years later, both eyes. Afield to try a new gun, the boy strayed from his father, stumbled in swampy land, discharged his weapon into his own face and had to struggle two miles to the highway alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Tory Tension | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

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