Word: knocked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...honest municipal administration does as much for the poor in housing and recreation and health and crime prevention, the poor are not tempted to give their vote to the man who brings a sack of coal in winter and a peddling license in summer. A possible alternative way to knock out the machines is to adopt the city-manager system which, well-organized, allows few chances for corruption. Perhaps Curley's revival may be a fortunate event for good government in Boston, for it focuses all eyes on the permanent sources of machine strength...
...wanted to vote against Flood Relief and, on the flood crests of the Ohio and the Mississippi, Franklin Roosevelt's Relief program rode to an easy victory. Only flaw in his success in cutting Relief costs was the rapidly growing realization that the cost of Flood Relief would knock all Mr. Hopkins' calculations into a watersoaked cocked...
This great show of vitality in an industry which got its hardest knock when it was a century old is nowhere better epitomized than in the brand new united front the roads got together and set up in 1934-the Association of American Railroads which was evolved from the old American Railway Association and the Association of Railway Executives, and which is currently spending a million dollars to plaster the nation with such new railway slogans as: ALL ABOARD! WE'RE GOING PLACES! And in choosing a man to head A.A.R. and "speak and act for the entire industry...
...drove a golf ball 50 yards farther than Bobby Jones. He could put an approach shot within ten feet of the pin from any distance up to 200 yards. He bet he could knock a ball three-quarters of a mile in five shots and won easily. He said he could beat Bing Crosby at golf using a shovel, a rake and a baseball...
...firm have not had to worry since. Because it will always buy back any picture it sells, the firm can go to its storerooms in either Paris or New York and at a moment's notice produce an exhibition of Renoir, Monet, Degas or the rest, to knock out the public's eye. At long intervals the partners remember their duty to living art, introduce a new talent. They seldom take much of a chance. Any painter sponsored by cautious Durand-Ruel is apt to have enduring ability, and their patronage launches him convincingly. Last week this distinguished...