Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...real name is Giuseppe Carriorra. He was born in Sicily. Last week, he was received by Pope Pius XI-the first time such an honor has ever been accorded a pugilist. Said Mr. Dundee (later) to reporters: "That ought to bring luck. I hope I'll knock out the next man I fight...
padded with a pair of proven actresses (Gail Kane and Elisabeth Risdon), though written by a graduate of Harvard's famed 47 Workshop (Thomas Robinson), one week sufficed to knock this play quite out of competition. It was an aimless story of a writer, his wife, another woman...
...difference between mercury and gold, automicly speaking, is that an atom of gold consists of a nucleus and 79 electrons grouped around it, whereas an atom of mercury consists of a nucleus surrounded by 80 electrons. Take an atom of mercury; if you could, knock off the 80th electron and you would have an atom of gold...
Woodrow Wilson was led to remark as early as 1907: "Would that we could do something, at once dignified and effective, to knock Mr. Bryan once for all into a cocked hat!" And the late learned and Democratic Walter Hines Page summed up his opinion of Mr. Bryan for Colonel House with the remark : "Crank once, crank always...
Under the New President. Abruptly, the scene shifts from the Golden Gate to the hills of Vermont. Reporters in automobiles rushing over country roads; a knock at the door of a white farmhouse in the little hamlet of Plymouth; oil lamps lit, dispelling the darkness; telegrams read by their glow; a brief statement of mourning; an oath of office taken at dawn and the next chapter is inaugurated...