Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only a bare score of followers surrounded General Gallegos when the Federal troops finally caught up to him at Tepozan last week. Federal rifles barked and suddenly the General's horse, wounded, grew knock-kneed, whinneyed in agony, sagged and toppled. As Rodolfo Gallegos struggled to rise, the troops broke through his men and were upon him. Pitiless, they pumped lead, then jabbed swords, into fat General Gallegos until he expired, butchered. Near Nogales, Ariz., 33 rebel Mexican Indians fled across the border to be lodged in a protective U. S. jail...
...Shhtfhh-that, I'll block your knock...
...Shanghai a U. S. consulting engineer, W. H. Greenwood, 66, was set upon in the Chinese city by coolies who thought it good sport to flail his posteriors, raise welts upon his face, and knock out several of his teeth. When they released Mr. Greenwood, he was able to stagger into the refuge of the international city. ¶ Foreign shipping on the Yangtze River was repeatedly potshot by irresponsible Chinese artillery on shore, last week, causing the U. S. S. Preble and Cincinnati to return this fire several times with four-inch and six-inch guns. When similarly attacked...
...Knock it out of the lot, Eddie!" Cobb may have sneered. "That guy in the box is wholly worthless when considered from a pitching stand-point!" Umpire Wilson halted the game; approached the offending athlete with firm tread and livid countenance; ordered him off the premises. Cobb made leisurely preparations to comply with the arbiter's command. He walked slowly to the players' bench. He drew a glass of ice cold water; drank it with time out between sips for breathing and contemplation; carefully replaced the glass. He noted that one shoe lace seemed insecurely knotted. This situation...
Beyond these a different motif enters into the stories which follow. Formerly the dream element gave us a vision of fair women or of a knock-'em-down contest between lions and dragons. Forsooth, we do those things better in our day, when on the stage you will find cubistic representations of the sub-conscious mind in action. Pop the lights on and off, revolve them in circles of green, yellow and red. Shoot off a pistol now and then; no doubt about it, you have caught the modern dream element. R. H. Sanger has the spirit of the trick...