Word: pummeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bedtime Chillers. Roughhousing with the second shift, Lou Marx likes to pummel and chase them frantically up and down the three-story house, allows the boys to squirt water guns and smash toys to their hearts' content. (Idella feels the boys are working off their aggressive instincts.) Once a week the Marx brothers pile into their parents' 13-ft.-wide bed for the night. There they are treated to a bedtime-story session in which Marx spins chiller-dillers about such bad guys as a deformed villain who sautes children's eyeballs for supper. The "mean-man stories...
...another-bore cannon moved in on the flank. The New York News's Columnist Ed Sullivan, whose paper objects to his mentioning Winchell by name, blasted a speech Winchell made at a dinner given for him by the Los Angeles Friars Club. Winchell had used the occasion to pummel some of the "ingrates" who surround him, including Drew Pearson. Reported Winchell, reprinting a West Coast newspaper report: " 'WW said [at the Friars' dinner that] Pearson latched onto WW's gimmick of announcing the "Stop the Music" mystery tunes and when WW urged Pearson (via friends...
...Ernie Bevin had shouldered his 250-lb. bulk up to the chairmanship of Britain's Trades Union Congress, the top spot in British labor. At high council tables he used plain, blunt, carefully thought-out words and facts like clenched fists to pummel his opponents...