Louis, Joe

An African-American boxer of the twentieth century, who held the world championship in the heavyweight class from 1937 to 1949.

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Louis was called the “Brown Bomber” and was a source of racial pride for America's blacks.

As when Ali and Joe Louis had that one last, unnecessary fight, the whole thing is mostly depressing.

Obama, on the other hand, keeps being defended as combining the wisdom of Socrates and the toughness of Joe Louis.

Housecats grown spotted and huge as leopards (not little runts like Joe Louis here) stalk through those gardens.

You didn't put those Joe Louis light rays in your bedroom, did you?

The king-size, easy-going Californian looked more like the early Joe Louis than ever.

He looked surprisingly like the Joe Louis of several decades earlier.

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