Word: knockout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Looking toward the future it is extremely doubtful if the University will ever be able to deal a knockout blow to the tutoring schools. But the possibility of a decision for the University is not so impossible. When instructors realize that they must organize their lectures and dole out their dismal reading lists for the "C" man as well as for the honor student, then the University will have done its part. And when this happens, then the students themselves will see that twenty gruelling hours of copying and time for re-reading could be better and more cheaply spent...
Paced by Henry Kelly, Last year's 145-pound University boxing champion, who won his match by a technical knockout, Eliot's maulers out socked Lowell to gain a 3 to 2 victory in the first inter-House boxing tournament yesterday afternoon in the Indoor Athletic Building...
...smash hit overnight. Leave It to Me! is a good show, but far from a knockout. Dripping with fat moments, it too often relaxes that festive, madcap spirit, that no-slowing-down-for-curves tempo, that kettle-boiling-over excitement that mark the top-notch farce musical. But it has fast dancing and pretty girls. It has some beguiling, insouciant Cole Porter tunes, some pert cafe society Cole Porter lyrics. It has Sophie Tucker, who can make ambassadorial high-life so low-life that even her pearls seem to leer...
Pert, jaunty, ingenious, fast as a pickpocket's fingers, slick as a chorus boy's hair, Sing Out the News has the look of a knockout revue. Yet that is chiefly a tribute to its direction. The satire is goofy but glib, the jokes are neat rather than new, the lyrics trip smartly but lack kick, the tunes are good to hear but hard to hum. Composer Rome offers nothing so bomb-bursting as his last season's Sing Me a Song with Social Significance, nothing so hilarious as his Chain Store Daisy. Only once could...
...intervening eleven months, 25-year-old Henry Armstrong had snatched the featherweight (126 Ib.) championship away from Petey Sarron (by a knockout), then, jumping right over the lightweight class, had punched the welterweight (147 Ib.) crown off Barney Ross's head. The first pugilist to hold both the featherweight and the welterweight titles at the same time, ambitious Henry Armstrong last week went back to get Lou Ambers' lightweight (135 Ib.) crown...