Word: knocker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plump, ebullient Dixie Tighe of the Philadelphia Record, and New York Post plunged even deeper into the Royal private life, cabled her papers that at Quebec's Citadel the King and Queen slept in narrow beds in separate rooms, with a low door between. The door had a knocker on each side. Though the King and Queen had running water in their private bathrooms, members of their entourage had to use old-fashioned wash basins. "The wash bowl sets," added thoroughgoing Miss Tighe, "are absolutely complete...
...Wenatchee, Wash., because it "held thousands of skilled apple workers in the Wenatchee Valley up to ridicule and contempt," the Chamber of Commerce petitioned the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America Inc. for elimination from the screen of the term "apple-knocker...
...medicines sold over U. S. drugstore counters for the cure of arthritis. They included analgesics like aspirin, local balms like antiphlogistine, blood builders like ferric ammonium citrate. Some of their names: Joyzone Pain Analgesic, Clear Water Joint Ease, Rising Mist, Wizard Balm, U-Rub-It, Rivet Cold Breaker, Pain Knocker, Oil-O-Youth, Root-Tea-Na-Salve...
...ller, a brash ex-Army chaplain, for the job of knocking Protestant heads together, and at that job the Realmbishop has notoriously failed. Last week the Opposition Pastors set about organizing their own national Protestant Administration, hoped that Der Fülhrer may eventually accept it in preference to Knocker Müller's. In alarm the Realmbishop thundered, "I shall hold the office which the Eternal God gave me until the Eternal God recalls...
...fights. But even the kick-'im-in-the-shins "You're a liar--you're another!" blustering that have resounded in New York are harmless compared to the insidious below-the belt fighting elsewhere. The mass of voters either laugh at an open fight, or they vote against a "knocker"; but they have never read "Brutus is an honorable man" and they do not recognize subtle defamation. The winning of campaigns by such means--and examples abound--is a knock-down blow to a faith in democracy...