Word: knock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Louis failed to knock out, returned to England, surprised English boxing writers by talking of his earnings in dollars rather than pounds. Explained Pugilist Farr: "There's more of them...
...author of this book, Knock...
...eyes of the polite world, Ernest Hemingway has much to answer for. Armed with the hardest-hitting prose of the century, he has used his skill and power to smash rose-colored spectacles right & left, to knock many a genteel pretence into a sprawling grotesque. Detractors have called him a bullying bravo, have pointed out that smashing spectacles and pushing over a pushover are not brave things to do. As the "lost generation" he named* have grown greyer and more garrulous, so his own invariably disillusioned but Spartan books have begun to seem a little dated; until it began...
...Topper" with Cary Grant, Constance Bennett and Roland Young tells the story of two amusing reprobates who acquire the rather disconcerting habit of shuffling off this mortal coil at will. Mr. Grant and Miss Bennett resolve to do one good deed before they knock at the pearly gates, deciding to transform Mr. Young, America's foremost Babbit into America's number one play-boy. Combining the photographic tricks of "The Invisible Man" with a new freshness entirely its own, the film rates as tops in humor; the only adverse criticism is that perhaps "Topper" is a little too much...
...obligation to put forth evidence of red-blooded masculinity ... a literary style, you might say, of wearing false hair on the chest." Author Hemingway called for a mutual baring of bosoms. What next occurred is the subject of variorum accounts. Author Eastman's version: "I knew he could knock me out quickly in a boxing match, so I grappled with him and threw him on his back across Max Perkins' desk and then over the desk and down on his head in a corner." Author Hemingway offered his story as he sailed for Spain. On his forehead were...