I met men incoherent with indignation at the brutality of prize-fighting, and who, at the same time, were parties to the adulteration of food that killed each year more babes than even red-handed Herod had killed. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He will bribe a city council for a franchise or a state legislature for a commercial privilege; but he has never been known, in all his sleep-walking history, to bribe any legislative body in order to achieve any moral end, such as, for instance, abolition of prize-fighting, child-labor laws, pure food bills, or old age pensions. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"That's what makes prize-fighting -- difference of opinion," he laughed. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It is the custom of prize-fighting audiences to cheer a clean knock-down blow. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I met men incoherent with indignation at the brutality of prize-fighting, and who, at the same time, were parties to the adulteration of food that killed each year more babies than even red-handed Herod had killed. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He will recoil at the suggestion of the horrid spectacle of two men confronting each other with gloved hands in the roped arena, and at the same time he will clamor for larger armies and larger navies, for more destructive war machines, which, with a single discharge, will disrupt and rip to pieces more human beings than have died in the whole history of prize-fighting. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In memory of the passing of Carlos Roume, our next daily strip reprint will be "Fighting Flynn", set in the world of bare-fist prize-fighting. ❋ Steve (2009)
ZAKARIA: And we are back with our prize-fighting economists, Paul Krugman versus John Taylor. ❋ Unknown (2009)
There, the public finances being low, he tried to get legalized prize-fighting introduced to save the treasury's life, but it failed — the people were not advanced enough yet. ❋ Unknown (2009)
That isone suggestionfromConnecticut Bob and his commenters, folkwho are properly upset by the ill repute that the prize-fighting canary ring has brought upontheir great state. ❋ Unknown (2009)
My dear four of them and Caroline behind the chiffoniere attacking with the poker and when disarmed prize-fighting with her double fists, and down and up and up and down and dreadful! ❋ Unknown (2007)
Mountain-climbing was often viewed as a spiritual activity; prize-fighting became “the manly art of self-defence”; public hangings, it was suggested, were a deterrent to crime; and even prostitution was justified as a way of letting men satisfy their animal lusts without offending “decent” women. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The island was once home to prize-fighting cocks and their trainers. ❋ Unknown (2004)
In several instances the opponents resorted to blows, when rings were formed, seconds selected, and all the minutiae of prize-fighting rigidly adhered to, the bystanders encouraging their respective favourites, and freely betting their money, articles of apparel, and even their food on the issue of the contest. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Nowhere else is there the same good humoured, affectionate, prize-fighting ferocity in politics. ❋ Unknown (2004)
On those walls, wherever the eye roved, were prints coloured and uncoloured, old and new, depicting the sports of racing and prize-fighting! ❋ Unknown (2004)
But though given to sport, by which he meant modern prize-fighting and the Epsom course on the Derby day, Mr Jones was a man who dearly loved respectable customers and respectable lodgers. ❋ Unknown (1993)
