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This man Slocum is one of the rough, loud-spoken men of the village, schooled in vice and fisticuffery.
The Eagle's Heart Hamlin Garland 1900
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Instead, this fundraiser features good old-fashioned fisticuffery, as combatants from fire and police departments around the area compete in seventeen boxing matches for first-responder bragging rights and, more important, to raise money for BackStoppers (
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