Word: knocker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among others banged by Brass Knocker Kenney...
Charles Dillon ("Casey") Stengel has a deeply lined, hawklike face that is hard to forget. He has wiry, bowed legs, a workaday wit, and an air of mock modesty. "I'm an apple-knocker," he likes to say, "and I'm against all city slickers." He was also quite a ballplayer in his day. Under the late great John J. McGraw of the Giants, he smashed a crucial home run in the 1923 World Series, and vigorously thumbed his nose at the Yankees all the way round the bases. The mantle of dignity is one article of clothing...
Said Honest Jim: "I certainly was astonished in the streets of our lovely little city, the other day-a knocker...
...Wilderness. But while it lasted and whil the Age of Opulence covered the land with its fertilizing flood, Americans floated and liked it. The Booster and the Hustler appeared, to do battle with the Knocker. For there were knockers. Many of the long-haired critics had fled prosperity in favor of poverty in Paris. In London, the most important of them, Poet Thomas Stearns Eliot, found a name for the period's typical man: "Apeneck Sweeney." He called the age's greatest poem simply: The Waste Land...
...Rating is determined by feeding the gasoline to be tested to a test motor, whose spark is advanced until knocking appears. An identical motor is then run on various mixtures of 1) heptane (a bad knocker) and 2) isooctane (once thought to be the perfect knockless fuel) until its knocking corresponds to that of the other. If the unrated gasoline knocks at the same point as a mixture of 30% heptane and 70% isooctane, it is rated as "70 octane...