Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found in office hours and then in the act of being fired from a newspaper. Tired of being merely sophisticated she graduates in "Verfalchung". Nevertheless the picture has a good plot. Clark Gable is the editorial detective and is even willing to allow murderer Bannister to knock him down in order to find out who killed cock-robin. No great discernment is required to discover the "murderee" who is obligingly killed in a convenient boat house. Stuart Irwin indulges in recitation in order to test the sound proofing of the boat-house walls and there is a delightful scene...
Egged on by the Labor Board, which in turn was egged on by the A. F. of L., Department of Justice prosecutors went to U. S. District Judge John Percy Nields at Wilmington, charged that Weirton was outside the law, asked for an injunction which would knock out the company union. When the case began as a paper fight, Judge Nields threw 1,060 affidavits out of court with orders that the deponents be brought before him so he could gauge their credibility on the witness stand (TIME, June 11). After this false start, it took nearly two months...
...wife, Claude, was kept too busy bearing him seven children to give him any cause for jealousy. But the beauteous Françoise de Foix, one of his mistresses, did. Francis' royal handling of an embarrassingly bourgeois situation became a classic. The intruder, surprised by Francis' unexpected knock, took shelter in the fireplace, which was screened by leafy boughs. Francis, as if unaware that anything was amiss, treated Françoise in his usual fashion, then relieved himself into the fireplace...
Witness Edna Ferber has called it "chie" to attend the trial. Enzo Fiermonte declared it a "knock-out," while Dolly Madison of the Young Republicans brought her knitting and completed only three stitches. Clifton Webb called it "heart-breaking" and Jack Benny was assured "this was serious business." Lynn Fontanne thought Hauptmann a handsome young man, while the former Mrs. Jack Dempsey was sorry for him whether he was "guilty or not." Hence, whatever Cleric Burns, the interrupter on Tuesday, tried to say, seemed quite immaterial...
...meal was nearly over when a convict suddenly appeared in the doorway. No penitent whiner was he. Instead he leveled an automatic, barked, "Hands up!" Warden Holohan was returning from the telephone. His guests saw three more convicts knock him down, crack his skull with their pistol butts. Boardman Atherton addressed the first convict: "If you boys are on the square and promise no shooting I'll go as a hostage, but remember I'm the father of four children...