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1932 Men's Boxing Medalists

Class   Flyweight (-112 lb) István Enekes, HUN   Francisco Cabanas, MEX   Louis Salica, USA Batamweight (-118 lb) Horace Gwynne, CAN   Hans Ziglarski, GER   José…

Brewer's: C

There is more than one poem written of which every word begins with C. For example: (1) One composed by HUEBALD in honour of Charles le Chauve. It is in Latin hexameters and runs to somewhat more…

Brewer's: Secular Games

Those held by the Romans only once in a century. While the kings reigned they were held in the Campus Martius, in honour of Pluto and Proserpine, and were instituted in obedience to the…

Welterweight

1892–94 Mysterious Billy Smith1894–96 Tommy Ryan1896 Kid McCoy11896– 1900 Mysterious Billy Smith1900 Rube Ferns1900–01 Matty Matthews1901 Ruby Ferns1901–04 Joe Walcott1904 Dixie Kid11904–06…

Entertainment Bios — M

Bernie MacRalph MacchioAndie MacDowellMattew MacfadyenAli MacGrawKyle MacLachlanShirley MacLaineFred MacMurrayPeter MacNicolElle MacphersonWilliam H. MacyAmy MadiganMadonnaAnn MagnusonTobey…

Brewer's: Macaronic Verse

Verses in which foreign words are ludicrously distorted and jumbled together, as in Porson's lines on the threatened invasion of England by Napoleon. (Lingo drawn for the Militia.) So…