Word: punch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also on the Business School Field this afternoon Coach Carr's Varsity will meet the Boston Professionals in a return informal engagement. Captain Dorman's team, whose season opens with Tufts here Wednesday, has improved its defense during the past week, but still lacks a scoring punch...
...title is misleading, for it is primarily an anthology of the great knockouts of literature. For straight graphic writing, Homer's account of Odysseus' one-punch victory over Irus, and of Epeios' equally effective slugging of Euryalos, make subsequent reports on fisticuffing seem cloudy and selfconscious. When Euryalos was hit, he leaped up "as when beneath the North Wind's ripple a fish leapeth" and was forthwith dragged from the ring with his legs trailing, spitting clotted blood, his head drooping awry...
...evening of Oct. 29, 1919 one of Tammany's brightest young men made a speech in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan. The subject of the speech was Publisher William Randolph Hearst, who at that time packed so much punch in New York City politics that Tammany had kowtowed to him for over 16 years. The speaker was a young Governor named Alfred Emanuel Smith, serving his first term. Referring to Publisher Hearst, Governor Smith began: "I know he has not got a drop of good, clean, pure red blood in his whole body. And I know the color of his liver...
...Five" banks claimed to be acting independently of the Bank of England when they tightened credits to Italy sharply, made the munitions buying Dictator wince at the vast, invisible potency of London financiers. If any sneak up the Blue Nile was started it was a genuine sneak. Comfortable Punch cartooned a musical comedy interlude in which Dame France and John Bull, wagging their fingers at II Duce, sing: We don't want you to fight But, by jingo, if you do, We shall probably issue a joint memorandum suggesting a mild disapproval of you! All this seemed less funny...
...This punch was pulled by telling Washington correspondents at the State Department not to interpret the Bullitt note's strong language as meaning that President Roosevelt means to sever U. S.-Soviet relations. Its meaning last week seemed to be that the Administration, whether or not it was ever privately fooled by the Litvinoff pledge, does not choose to be fooled publicly any longer...