Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich . . . was . . . close to Roosevelt" (TlME, Feb. 15). As close as is a boxer taking a knock-out to his antagonist who gives...
...TIME on his desk where every person can see that there is one magazine that is not afraid to come out and say what it should say at the right time. Keep up the good work. Here is a little motto that use quite often: "You came in without knocking. Please go out the same way." This printed on a card and on the inside of the office door will be seen by everyone going out. They will ask what it means. Explain that it means one should not knock a good thing but boost, help it along...
...with the fatal stains. Last week the will of Tailor Peterson's daughter, Mrs. Pauline Peterson Wenzing, was probated. This Mrs. Wenzing was a girl of 13 on the night when her mother turned from the lamp and her father got up from his stitching to answer a wild knock ing at the door. It was in her own bed (on the ground floor) that the men who came tramping into the house laid their long, gaunt, helpless burden...
...Manhattan, sloe-eyed Italian children competed in a baby show. Some were knock-kneed, some astigmatic, round-shouldered, swivel-hocked, unduly thin; some spilled their milk with mild equability, as if a saucepan in their stomachs were softly frothing over. But well-nigh perfect was Anthony Chieco. He was fat. He was serene. "What do you feed him on?" doctors asked the mother. "Spaghetti," shrugged enormous Mrs. Chieco. "He eats moocha spaghetti, and he drinks da vino- wine. Madre di Dio, he drinks it, oouf! like ees water...
...those qualities which legend has conferred upon the peers of England. Traces of an older generation survived in his speech and in his clothes,- hard grainy phrases, grandiloquent flights of formal gallantry, puffing stocks, deep collars, square top hats. He was a celebrated boxer! People said that he could knock out any man in the House of Lords. Once he sat next to Charles Parnell in a railway carriage and, for the only time in his life, permitted himself to be engaged in conversation by a man to whom he had never been introduced, thus winning fame as "the first...