Word: knocked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glad that William Rose Benét came to Mr. Auslander's defense [TIME, June 10] but your book reviews usually do knock poets and their work. I took it for granted that whoever writes them was not developed up to the point of appreciating poetry. You published a review of Ogden Nash's last book with a picture of John Chamberlain and his wife, and the story of Mr. Chamberlain's literary rise. You even said that Edna Millay wasn't so good! Ho, hum. Does your reviewer like Mother Goose...
...clock one morning last week, just before he was going out to milk his cows, John Bonifas, a chicken farmer of Issaquah, Wash., heard a knock on his door. He opened it and there stood a dishevelled child wrapped in a dirty white blanket...
Soon he began to feel his oats. Far from apologetic for never having had an art lesson, he boldly lectured St. Louisans on art, organized a group known as the "New Hats." Said he: "I want to paint things that will knock holes in the walls." In the same mood he turned Communist. Impressed, St. Louis began giving him one-man shows, more prizes. Joe sent a picture to the Sixteen Cities Show in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, with an autobiography: "Joe Jones. Born St. Louis, 1909. Self-taught...
...Shiver expressed the convention's sentiments when he interrupted by shouting: "Brother, we just knocked 'em loose from the teat a little bit. We're gonna knock 'em all the way loose and suck a little ourselves...
...Carthage, Tex., close to the Louisiana State line, Henry Walton, big black buck, began to dote on the philosophy of Huey Long. Last week he got a pistol, used it to knock a storekeeper over the head, helped himself to the trade goods, conducted a brief reign of terror. Then he fled across the Sabine River. When pursuers arrived on the opposite bank, he shouted: "Stay on your side of the Sabine! Me and Huey Long is running this side." The constable of the Carthaginians, who had no wish to share their wealth, knelt down and drilled Henry Walton through...