Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simply Street Scene without a plot. But Mr. Kingsley's episode has been immeasurably enhanced by his collection of child actors. Although they are professional mummers, Tommy and most of his gang seem to come straight from Manhattan's slummy East Side. When they play gutter poker, knock each other down or yell, "You stink on ice!" they do so with great natural gusto and authority. Because of Master Halop & Co. and Designer Geddes' work. Dead End belongs on any theatrical "must" list...
...Arthur Eddington believes an internal temperature of 20,000,000° C. is enough. Sir James Jeans thinks it must be 40,000,000° or 50,000,000°, adding that a pinhead heated to this point would radiate energy at the rate of three quadrillion horsepower, knock down fortresses by sheer pressure of radiation (TIME, Nov. 19). Last week a Harvard physicist named T. E. Sterne offered the electrochemists calculations boosting the inside temperatures of ordinary stars (the sun is an ordinary star...
...bills -were on hand for the opening in Madison Square Garden. New features: a Mexican band; a corral full of Canadian bucking horses freshly picked by Colonel Johnson's bronco scout, Mike Hastings; Horseshoe Pitcher Ted Allen of Alhambra, Calif., whose best trick consists of making a shoe knock a paper bag off the head of an assistant named George on its way to falling for a ringer; and a bronco-rider named Sol Schneider who has spent his life in Brooklyn where his experience with horses began as lead-boy in a Coney Island pony ranch. Manhattan rodeo...
...masterpiece of radicalism, he urges the reader to believe that the communists are an erudite aggregation who predict revolution without advocating it. One is reminded of the classic morn when Poppea in her arrogance called Cleopatra a courtesan. Indeed, according to Mr. Strachey, it is not the communists who knock off the proverbial chip, but the fat capitalist who grinds down the worker to the depths of poverty and fifth...
...Would knock my mentality half-way to hell...