Word: clouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...falling Schindel. At tournament's end, Basel's Helvetia Society, with 1,112 points, no penalties, got the champion's oakleaf wreath and a two-gallon, silver-studded drinking horn brimming with white wine. Farmer Gruber, with 104 personal points and one incredible 340-yd. clout, was acclaimed the Schläger Koenig (batting king...
...brash, ingenious, emphatic and go-getting. It has given to the world Charles ("Boss") Kettering, genius of production, Joe Louis, onetime genius of the clout, and Edgar A. Guest, genius of the jingle. One of its showpieces is its Institute of Arts, containing Diego Rivera's monstrous panorama of machines, gears and allegorical nudes. But the acme of its important art is the elegant chrome design of the automobile radiator...
...usual Hollywood standards. Its hero is an insecure weakling with whom no red-blooded American moviegoer will care to identify himself. Its heavy is that rarely assailed folk heroine, Mom. Its backgrounds (a bombed-out Italian village, a humid Manhattan slum) are as real and painful as a clout on the jaw. Least conventional of all, and the best thing about Teresa, is its heroine, who gives U.S. movies a new kind of personality and performance...
...York Rangers. She was particularly interested, she said later in federal court be cause her friend and fellow fan, Jonas Walvisch, had promised to wave to her from a front-row seat. On her 10-inch screen, said Mrs. Eisenberg, she saw Canadiens Player Emile Bouchard clout Jonas on the head with a hockey stick just as her friend leaned forward to wave Asked the defendant's attorney: "Did you wave back?" Answered Mrs. Eisenberg: Of course...
...settled in the house where Farmer Robert died last week. Both were good farmers. Eng was a sobersided teetotaler; Chang a temperamental tippler. Once, say the Carolina neighbors, the brothers were repairing the roof of their house when they had a quarrel. Chang seized a hammer and threatened to clout Eng with it and knock him to the ground...