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Word: knocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these divorced boys, 116 play harps in heaven; out of 1,000 single fellows of the same age group, 112 enter the angelic host; while out of 1,000 married youngsters of the same age-group, only 80, with 'storm and strife' to contend with, knock at St. Peter's Pearly Gates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Leopard | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

...Thomas presumably rotates in his sepulchre during a lively scene wherein the Virgin Queen's bailiffs attempt to arrest Jack, knock him senseless, and are then set upon by Kate with such vigor that she is eventually overpowered in a state described as "mother naked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Masterson | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

...from de binnstuck was a kestle in wheech it leeved a hogre wot he ate opp pipple. So Jeck gave a knock on de door so it upperied de door de hogre's wife. So Jeck sad: 'Goot monnink, Meessus Hogre!!' So she sad: 'Who you??' So he sad: 'Hm-I'm from de Gezz Company-wot I should ridd de mitter. . . .' ". . . So it came in gredually de hogre wot he gave a sneef...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION,FICTION: Melba | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...that the concert is expected to be perfectly knock-out, and I am enclosing two tickets with the ardent hope that you may be able to come over and watch Radcliffe do its stuff. (Howzat for diplomacy...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 4/8/1926 | See Source »

...only use that I could possibly make of a coon-skin coat is to cover my embarrassing set of knock-knees," was the statement issued by Stanley Lupino yesterday to a CRIMSON reporter, when questioned as to his opinion on Fanny Brice's recent lament for a fur coat. "I might use such a coat in a game of hide-and-seek," he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lobster, Donkey and Dove Roles Were Found Easy by Stanley Lupino--Comedian Is Enthusiastic About Charlot's Revue | 3/20/1926 | See Source »

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