Word: punched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most proper British magazines, their Christmas number is the climax of the year. By last week, most major British magazines had shipped out their cheery, dowdy Christmas annuals to make the Holidays complete for homesick Britons all over the world. Heading the list was the venerable funnybook Punch, with its Almanack for 1937, which was like any other issue of Punch except that it had a cover in color by Ernest Howard ("When We Were Very Young") Shepard, many a color page inside...
...play it appears mainly due to his idea that the U. S. literary scene consists of Edgar Allan Poe. He invades a party in the famed salon of Anne Lynch in Manhattan, threatens to thrash a man who is slandering his character, starts drinking from the punch bowl instead. His recital of The Raven is interrupted, inevitably, by news of his child wife's death. In 1849 he visits Elmira, then a widow, but his attempt at a reunion fails because she believes he wants to start an ill-tempered magazine with her money. From beginning...
More power to TIME and its return to the air as a weekly. Its daily dramatization had lost the punch of the once-a-week broadcast. It was a real thrill for this more than six year cover-to-cover reader to react again to the stirring episodes of our recent history...
...Francisco opening a dapper Italian mounted the conductor's stand proud as Punch, not that he is a great conductor, or that anyone has ever called him one, but because he, Gaetano Merola, could rightfully claim credit for making San Francisco's opera thrive. For his first season (1923) there was not even an adequate stage. Quick to gamble, he spent $20,000 fixing up the old Auditorium, began importing high-priced singers. When that first season ended Impresario Merola went to the hospital with a nervous breakdown. But San Franciscans had liked his performances, wanted more, formed...
...players feel that tomorrow is the day when Princeton should at last string scoring form which it has failed to attain in its opening four encounters. Only against Penn have the Tigers evidenced some of the offensive which they pack on paper, and yet against Penn, lack of scoring punch handed Princeton its second defeat in 31 games. This despite the fact that the Crisler men outgained the Quakers by a wide margin...