Word: knocked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...photograph itself is concerned, I do not know if I ever saw a parade of bowlegged, knock-kneed, crooked-spine, spindle-shanked, potbellied, emaciated and physically deformed half wits, unnatural looking people than the photograph which you had the nerve to publish in your supposed to be high class and respectable magazine...
...crime is kidnapping, (to nab a kid) and not "kidnaping" (perhaps to grab a child by the nape of the neck). We feel very incensed about this, and live in mortal fear of the day when the newspapers, not content to leave the extra "me" in program or pogrom, knock superfluous words from the names of the great. Picture to yourself such a headline, "Presidents Rosevelt, Hover, Lowel, Angel, and Con'nt confer with orators Ramsey M'Donald, Graham M'Namee...
...know that many a fine player of my days would not even make the varsity squad in this present age of forward passes, intricate offences, speed, and brains. I consider Bon Ticknor to be one of the greatest players I have ever seen. He could do everything: block, tackle, knock down passes...
...United States has ever aroused more furor than the LaGuardia-McKee-Tammany struggle in the home of Broadway. From Times Square to the Pacific it is continuous front-page copy. But New York is not the only ostrich in the zoo. Boston, too, is witnessing one of the fiercest knock-down drag-outs of its history. And in both cases the reason for the excitement is exactly the same. A really able man, one who is neither crook nor incompetent, has a betting chance to be elected...
...excitement the Admiral's love-pats had crippled many a woman; but they still flocked after him." At the missions along the road Juan heard many a tale of famed Father Ugarte, "whose habit it was to seize a wizard in each hand by their long hair, and knock their heads together until they begged humbly for baptism; declaring themselves long Christian by conviction, but kept from the Church by humility. Once baptized, he retained them so near him that they could not safely backslide...