Word: punch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sinister Peter Lorre jiu-jitzues his way to the exposure of an astute leader of a smuggling gang. A dramatic finish gives extra impetus to a film whose worth depends entirely on the individual's liking for Mr. Lorre. "Think Fast Mr. Moto" loses some of its punch since its theme is too strongly in contrast with that of its forerunner and becomes the mediocre backer-up on a mediocre bill...
...Freshmen who attended the Harvard Monthly's Rum Punch last Thursday afternoon, I feel that your editorial on the subject was quite absurd...
Certainly, there was no compulsion to drink the punch, and the refusal to do so did not seem to cause a candidate to lose caste in the eyes of the editorial board...
...boss, then to anti-New Dealers in general when he began writing his United Feature column, and currently to the New Deal itself, of which he has become a severe and irascible critic. On his first headache pill program the General gave proof that he had not lost his punch...
...have only one champion, Chicago's clever 27-year-old Barney Ross who has held the title before and since he abdicated his lightweight title two years ago. Current ranking contender is fierce-faced Ceferino Garcia, a Filipino sugar-cane cutter armed with a looping right-hand punch supposedly suggestive of cane cutting and known as the "bolo punch." Two years ago in a nontitle fight Garcia knocked Ross down in the first round, but Ross outboxed him for the decision on that occasion. He did so again in a second (over-the-weight) meeting two months later. Last...