Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cockeye Johnny, self-styled King of the Gypsies. Says Johnny: "To the Department of Welfare, I may not be no king and to the King of England, I may not be no king, but to those poor, persecuted gypsies that I run myself knock-kneed looking after their personal welfare, I am king." A gin drinker, Johnny mixes it with Pepsi-Cola, calls it old popskull, consumes five quarts of gin a week. Johnny believes there are but two kinds of merchandise: "lost and unlost. Anything that ain't nailed down is lost." Johnny gets easily worked up over...
...with not even Pete Brown showing up to relieve the monotony. Cab Calloway and the RKO stage shows. Louis Jordan at the Tis Tec, had a pretty good little hand back in the days of the Decco into six album, and even later than that is the days of "Knock Me A Kiss, and Mama, Mama Blues"; but now he's building up a reputation for having the biggest little comedy band in the country. And no matter how pleasant Deoley Wilson at the Mayfair and Arthur Fielder at the Pops may make "As Time Goes By," they...
What these events portend-a final, all-out attempt to knock out the Red Army, or a more limited effort to weaken it-the world may not know for weeks. In the meantime, the Russians will look to the Germans' other front, the front where Russia's Allies had yet to move this week...
...uncharted in previous U.S. history, was brilliant. His first job was to provide raw materials. With a speculator's foresight, he bought up a supply of toluol (for TNT) before the Army was fully aware of its importance. By adroit bluffing, he got the Chilean Government to help knock the price of nitrates from 7½? to 4⅛? a lb. He got jute from India at his price by threatening to withhold the silver shipments that stabilized India's rupee. He got iron ore from Sweden, wangled mules from Spain. In effect, he invented modern economic warfare...
...June last year the Germans had some 240 divisions available for the Russian front. Despite the losses of the first winter, they were fresh. They were splendidly equipped. The Luftwaffe was master of the Russian air. Yet in 1942 the Germans dared not attempt a front-wide drive to knock out Russia and the Red Army. Heavy though the southern blow was, it was a limited blow, intended to cripple rather than to kill...