Word: knock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...harpoons. Last spring Indians killed 2,000 of a herd of over a million and thus collected their lawful share of the sealing rights. In the summer natives of the Pribilof Islands are hired by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries to drive inland thousands of bachelor bull seals, knock them over the head, stick them through the heart. Down to St. Louis go the skins to be sold at auction by the Government. Last week the U. S. auctioned off some 15,000 skins, collected $282,640. Of this, 15% will be paid to Canada, 15% to Japan...
David O'Shea, a farm boy from Knock Naloman, County Cork, walked to the scaffold in Mountjoy Jail in Dublin at dawn last week. Outside the gates a morbid crowd cursed the Irish police that hanged him. It was not that they thought David O'Shea innocent, but to the Irish mind he had been caught by unfair means. Irishmen expect sportsmanship in their policemen...
Meantime Tycoon Doherty girded himself for the two other aspects of Cities Service's fight in Kansas: a defense against Governor Woodring's campaign to knock 10? off the Company's 40?-per-1000 cu. ft. gas rate; an attack upon the Kansas City Star, from which Tycoon Doherty is demanding $12,000,000 libel damages as the price of inspiring Governor Woodring's rate...
...lemme loose, I'll knock you agin,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, en wid dat he fotch 'er a wipe wid de udder han, en dat stuck. Tar-Baby, she ain't sayin' nothin', en Brer...
...manager, Robert Arm- strong, an athletic young man who looks something like Jack Sharkey, could slap him over anytime for no purse. Absurdities include a gymnasium shot in which a training fighter swings wildly at his spar- ring partner's chin for several minutes in an effort to knock him out; Armstrong playing solitaire on a table set up on the floor of the gymnasium; fighters wearing their bathrobes on the scales while weigh- ing in; Ayres, after having won a fight, talking into a microphone which is held several feet away from him instead of close to the ropes...