Word: knocked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lineup for the start or resumption of play. The ball-pigskin covered but blunter than an American football-is thrown between two packs of forwards who bend over with locked arms, butting against each other and trying to kick the ball out to their backs. Scrum follows a knock-on (forward fumble while running). After a ball goes into touch end (out-of-bounds) it is lined-out (thrown in among two lines of forwards). A player catching a kick can signal for the equivalent of a fair catch by digging his heel in the turf and crying "Mark...
...Court of St. James's, Robert Worth Bingham. I remember the uproar as of yesterday. Dickens had indulged in harsh criticism of Kentuckians which was instantly resented as described. Get history straight, and tell it that every time a Kentuckian had a fight after that he tried to "Knock the Dickens Out of His Opponent." True as Gospel...
...long his neck is," one exclaimed. "That's because it's broken," explained an officer. The girls giggled. The doctor ordered silence so that he could listen for heart beats with his stethoscope. Fourteen minutes later he was still hearing them. "Aw, hell," someone yelled, ''knock him on the head with a hammer." An officer patted his six shooter: "I know a faster way than that." Thus the spectacle went on for over an hour until all three were hanged and dead. Father Collins standing beside the sheriff smiled through it all. Since Hernando Negroes...
Opening the doors of the clubhouse on Winthrop Place to the public the Pi Eta Club at 8.15 o'clock tonight will put on its 47th annual show "Knock on Wood," written, directed, and enacted by club members...
...Knock on Wood", a musical comedy in three acts by Graham MacLeod '32, will be presented by the Pi Eta Club of Harvard on March 22 and 23 at the club theatre at 1 Winthrop Square. Following a custom of over half a century, all the music, lyrics, and designs have been originated by the members of the club, and both the masculine and feminine parts will be portrayed by undergraduates...