Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...humor stimulating, your skyscrapers magnificent, your traffic terrifying, your bathrooms overwhelming and your Broadway electrifying. When I want a trip to Hell, I simply enter the subway. I never dreamed there was a place where a man could put out people's eyes, smash them in the jaw, knock them down, kick them about and throttle them to his heart's content without anybody minding it in the least. It is a spiritual panacea, absolutely...
...sure, but more than that?Sheridan. For Value Received, as might be expected from its title, deals with the familiar woman who pays for what is generally referred to in such drama as "breaking the rules of a man-made social code." She has a splendid opportunity to knock the present social system and Men with a capital M for a row of rhetorical rockets. All of which, with subsidiary complications, well played by a competent cast, should furnish sufficient entertainment for the theatre goer who prefers to see his drama proceed along fairly well-worn lines...
...Tunney to third, and Walch's fly to deep left gave him ample time to come home. This was about all the excitement the team could stand and after that no one else reached first. While the visitors were unable to hit safely they were at no loss to knock the ball all over the diamond, keeping everyone and especially the outfielders busy. Seventeen men were put out on flies, twelve of which went well into the deep field, giving opportunity for several pretty catches...
...butterfly or moth. Yet there is no telling what secret ammunition may have been brought in; already there are rumors that a more penetrating criticism, from the same source, is about to be let loose. The game of setting up little tin gods and clay-footed idols to knock over is not particularly dangerous, and it has a certain virtue in putting the small players in trim for larger struggles. To undergraduate onlookers,' the present batters at Yale and Dartmouth keep their proper proportions. But outsiders are more gullible; finding that the critics take themselves seriously, they are quick...
Sitting at the ringside was Georges Carpentier. It will be recalled that, after his defeat by Siki, charges were made that the Negro had agreed to "lie down," but forgot his instructions so completely as to knock Carpentier out in the third round. It is not beyond the bounds of probability that Carpentier will now be matched with the inexpert McTigue in Paris. A graceful opportunity is thus afforded him to regain his championship without undergoing the ordeal of trading punches with the disagreeable Senegalese...