Crossword-Solution: FISTIANA 8 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Under the “favored applications clause,” a person whose knowledge of any particular subject was unique and authoritative, whether the topic were Esperanto or fistiana, went to the head of the waiting—list automatically and had his initiation fee remitted.

From the hour when this match was made in May last there has been a mystery attached to the personality of this fighter never before heard of in Fistiana in New York.

Now, where Paddy learned to "shape himself" I never heard, but I doubt if there is anything like it in the long history of "Fistiana." I have seen many queer things in old sporting prints, where the fancy of the artist, I am sure, has maligned the science of good men with their "fives," but nothing like Paddy's pose has ever appeared to me before or since.

This evening in fistiana was perhaps the most powerful single experience which influenced Al at this period of his life.

There is some curious blundering about the date of the first fight between George Taylor and Broughton; indeed, we should feel inclined to say that his first defeat was much earlier than the date of 1740, which is given in all the Chronologies, John Bee’s “Fistiana” and “Boxiana” included.