.. something as sensational as [a] heavy weight prize fight.... a rain of swings, uppercuts, and straight right and lefts to the stomach and everywhere throughout the entire event – a round lasting about twenty minutes.
c. 1930. As quoted in 'Bravo' Barcelona 1994; as quoted in Calder Miro, ed. Elizabeth Hutton Turner / Oliver Wick; Philip Wilson Publishers, London 2004, p. 37