Word: clout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beautifully executed squeeze play in the sixth frame which scored two runs broke the Elis' back, and three runs in the seventh put the game on ice. A circuit clout by Jack Cunningham in the second kept the Crimson in the ball game at the very start, while another in the ninth by slugging Lupe Lupten made the Harvard win more certain...
...Mortimer would bunt her off her bicycle, then back up rapidly with profuse apologies only to bunt her again, if she had managed to get to her feet. After that, apologizing still more profusely, he would help her up, then send her spinning with a black eye or a clout to the jaw. In no case did Lance Corporal Mortimer make immodest advances and never was he drunk. The story told by Mrs. Alice Series, the first woman Mortimer bunted, made police think her slightly cracked. They could no longer doubt it, however, when the same story was successively told...
...Tracy and Roscoe Kearns are uproariously ridiculous puzzling over a text on the duties of a butler, setting a table, and insulting guests. To preserve the honor and wealth of the household, Kearns takes on a strong plug-ugly backed by the nefarious husband, and finally manages to clout him into a somnabulistic state when the other fighter was not looking. Except for occasional lapses, "Two Fisted" is uniformly funny, with crackling dialogue, and good slapstick. Should one like an impossible, ridiculous bit of fluff, this is the movie to see, but by all means time the arrival so that...
...about the "death sentence." Last week the Administration put its theory to a test when Representative Rayburn moved that the House instruct its conferees to accept the "death sentence." Thereupon the House showed itself totally unimpressed by Senator Black's dirt, gave Administration hopes and prestige a mighty clout. Having originally rejected the "death sentence" on a teller vote by 216-10-146, Representatives now went on record against it by 210-10-155. Swiftly Representative Huddleston clinched his victory by getting the House (183-10-172) to authorize its conferees to exclude all outsiders from the conference. Routed...
Yale's reunion classes plodded out to the field through the rain, saw the weather clear off, were amazed by the stellar pitching of Eli Ted Horton only to see their hopes shattered by Gibb's winning clout...