Come Sail on a Small Flotilla of Figures of Speech
On the night of June 21, 1932, in Madison Square Garden, Joe Jacobs, the manager for boxer Max Schmeling, heard the judges award a decision to Schmeling’s opponent, Jack Sharkey. Enraged, Jacobs grabbed the announcer’s microphone and shouted to the world, “We was robbed!” Turns out that Jacobs fashioned his patch of rhetorical and […]