Word: punch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Like Paris and Berlin, London is ringed with guns, balloons, and searchlights. The special province of the British is the multiplication of instructive pamphlets with titles as long as Punch captions ( Your gas mask, how to keep it and how to use it; some things you should know if war should come). They are crammed with common sense and pat slogans like: "Take Care of Your Gas Mask and Your Gas Mask Will Take Care of You." When enemy planes are overhead, "the motto for safety will be Keep it Dark." Britons are warned to memorize the types of raid...
...only man in British officialdom who smells a Teuton in the one-by-one disappearance of four of His Majesty's newest war planes, Scotland Yarder Richardson ambles after clews with the skew of a Punch barfly, leans archly on an emblematic umbrella, stickles an uncertain industrialist with the crack: "With your genius for sitting on either side of the fence, you ought to be in the Government." As upsetting to Scotland Yard tradition as he is to the belief that the British are essentially humorless, Actor Richardson seemed the likeliest character yet to carry on for justice...
...belly blow, damaged his already ulcerated innards. Dempsey's successful defense: "If I had socked this little guy he wouldn't be here to tell his story. And if I have to pay him $3,000 I feel that I should be entitled to one punch...
...Thomas Edmund Dewey, 90%; voice quality very good, delivery & mannerisms good, poise very good. "Resonant, effective, his short staccato sentences ending with a punch you know is in the man himself . . . his appeal is not the appeal of persuasion, but of hard, purposeful drive...
Hubert's parental pride offended, he took a punch at the intruder, knocked out three of his teeth. The stranger, a policeman in civilian clothes, picked himself up, arrested Hubert. A magistrate's verdict: guilty of disorderly conduct. Sentence: suspended. Upshot: Mr. Hubert went home to pose for news photographers beside his weeping...