Word: knock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Students may obtain tickets beginning at 8:45 o'clock Tuesday morning at Exhibition Hall in Hunt Hall, on presentation of their bursar's cards. Previous films shown in the committee's series have included "La Kermesse Heroique" and Jules Romain's "Dr. Knock...
...editorial, calling for a "swift kick to knock the dust out of Dartmouth's baggy green pants," described most Dartmouth men as having an entirely wrong conception of the purposes of a college education. This "infantilism" or "googooism" is the result of a faculty which "lives in a vacuum and grinds out lectures like so many rusty phonographs...
...This Goodman is an interesting musician, isn't he?' said the professor, who was keeping time by stamping his feet on the floor. . . . 'Feed it out!' someone screamed as Gene Krupa, the drummer, began to knock the hell out of a set of cymbals. . . . 'Very interesting!' said the professor. 'The whole thing is explained in Allport's Social Psychology, chapters ten, eleven and twelve...
...just the same, you are conscious of the presence of well-wrinkled repartee. It doesn't make Bette Davis look prettier to hear her say: "I'll swallow my pride and go to him"; after the first laugh Leslie Howard seems a bit silly to say, when a knock on the door finds him in the arms of his stage partner, "Your husband." Perhaps you are the kind who can overlook the bad and remember only the good; then, you will long enjoy such lines as the one by Mr. Howard kissing the lovely Olivia de Havilland...
Each spring almost every team in both baseball leagues announces confidently that it will win the pennant; before the championship fight both challenger and defender are sure they will knock out the other. Likewise, in beginning this year's dogfight, the government and big business, with labor sandwiched somewhere in between, have sounded the note of war. The Administration, which should, because of its position, be acquainted with the virtues of tact and temperance, has obviously blown its trumpet too hard and very flat. On the other side, both business and labor have shown by their utterances that they...