Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regular Republicans grumped about overburdening the Civil Service Commission with unnecessary work and prayed that the House would knock this "reform" provision out of the bill. It remained for a Democratic Senator, South Carolina's Blease, to put into words their true sentiments about this innovation...
...North Bergen, N. J., Arthur Lambert, laborer, disowned his daughter Myrtle who insisted on riding freight trains, once going as far as Baltimore. Said he: "I have knocked her cold several times, but I can't knock this foolishness...
...title at stake is usually necessary nowadays to make a prizefight notable. Weight and power are usually necessary to make a fight exciting. Yet Eastern ring-watchers felt they had had a good evening last week after observing the earnest efforts of two little untitled men to knock each other out in ten rounds of fighting which looked, from the rim of the Bronx coliseum in which it took place, like a black ant and a dark-haired mosquito battering at each other...
...cartoonist, comic strip artist (Indoor Sports) of the Hearst newspapers, native of San Francisco; of heart disease and bronchial pneumonia; in Great Neck. In boyhood a buzz-saw ripped off most of "Tad's" right hand. He learned to draw lefthanded. In 1920, when he saw Jack Dempsey knock out Billy Miske, he had a heart attack. After that he was confined to his home, drawing every day, but attending no heart-affecting sport events. Occasionally he went to Manhattan, stared up Broadway from a suite in the Hotel McAlpin. He adopted two Chinese boys, one of whom became...
...pound class: Robinson defeated Brodie by judges decision; Light defeated Cowan on a technical knock-out in the second round...