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• n  a second-rate prize fighter

• Ever since Wallace Beery won the Best Actor Oscar in 1932 for playing a boozy palooka in The Champ, a throng of fight flicks have gained top acting nominations for two-fisted .
• John White ("Con") Conway, 42, dramatic critic of Variety, famed Manhattan theatrical trade weekly, inventor of many Broadway colloquialisms ("clicked," "pushover," "palooka .
• Navy, poked and punched by many a palooka, punched Penn, 60.

• stumblebum

News & Articles

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• Letters to the editor for Aug. 9, 2013
  Pennyworth was Joe Palooka's sidekick To the editor: Re: “Palooka’s Place”’ by Rebecca Bayens, published in the Times-Mail Monday. Humphrey Pennyworth was J ...
  Aug. 10, 2013 - Bedford Times-Mail

Quotes

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• William H Macy in CNN International
  I'm the luckiest palooka, but I did play a lot of misfits and losers, and I had just had a conversation with my agent that I don't want to play that role anymore,Macy said. "But then I read this script and I thought this is such a...
• Bill France Jr in SI.com
  The champion doesn't have to win eight races and he doesn't have to win a race in a given year,France said. "But he's got to meet some kind of subjective test where the media is not writing that we've got some palooka that has won the...
• Rick Reilly in Globe and Mail
  Gore went, as Rick Reilly wrote in Sports Illustrated, "from palooka to prince to palooka again."