Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although the French have in the past borrowed many other sporting words from the English and the American languages, it does not necessarily follow that they are pronounced in the same way. For example, sport is pronounced spor, knock-out as knookoot...
...Chinese Christian Soldier" who helped knock down and beat one of the police...
...real life-the song and dance man of the vaudeville circuits. He has posited as his thematic philosophy the principle that people of the Theatre can never shift allegiance to love or to the world of business. After years of waiting, his song and dance man hears the knock of opportunity on the door that leads to Broadway success. Failing miserably in his tryout, he enters business to pay a debt. Three years later, a completely successful man of affairs, he climbs down from his office stool and returns to the vagabond life of the meaner music halls...
...barely enough momentum to roll into the cage unobserved by Hurteau. Four minutes later the Terriers evened the count after Almer carried the puck half the length of the ice and let drive at the Crimson goal. Cummings deflected the shot but Blais was on hand to knock it into...
Lady Astor, Conservative candidate for Plymouth, had a busy time with the hecklers. At one meeting came an impertinent remark from a man which Lady Astor cut short with: "Don't be cheeky, or I will knock that pipe out of your mouth." On another occasion she answered defiantly her Socialist and Communist hecklers with: "I am not going to haul down the Union Jack for the Red flag. It is all very well to say we got our money from the slums. I offer anyone ?500 (about $2,175) if he can find any slums which Lord Astor...