Word: punched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brandishing like a club a rolled up copy of La Liberté which had cast upon him Stavisky innuendoes. Crack! and Crack! the Negro Deputy struck twice in the face with La Liberté one of its editorial writers. Deputy Desire Ferry. Smack!-Writer Ferry retorted with a punch to the jaw which sent Martinique's Lagrosillière reeling groggily, then shouted at him, "I demand satisfaction by arms...
...black & white pencil drawings and colored caricatures, signed for the most part H. B. To knowing London Victorians H. B. stood for John Doyle, an artist that modern critics have learned to classify with his more famed contemporaries, George Cruikshank and John Leech. His son Richard became the famed Punch illustrator. Every week at least 200,000 people look with lacklustre eyes on "Dicky" Doyle's best-known drawing-the cover for Punch, designed in 1844. John Doyle's little grandson grew up to be Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...
...Congressional delegation including Speaker and Mrs. Rainey (blue satin), Representative and Mrs. Sol Bloom (violet blue crushed velvet) et al., the President retired upstairs. Mrs. Roosevelt, unlike other First Ladies, remained behind to watch the dancing. Instead of giving the guests ice water for refreshments, the Roosevelts had fruit punch and cake served in the State Dining Room...
...white-thatched little man with drooping mustaches and a twinkle in his eye went to Chicago to exhibit his best beef cattle in the International Life Stock Exposition. His Briarcliff Thickset, a sleek black Aberdeen Angus, was named grand champion steer. Oakleigh Thorne, gentleman farmer, was pleased as Punch. A retired capitalist, a onetime president of Manhattan's Corporation Trust Co., he had been raising cattle since 1918 when he bought a 4,000 acre farm in Dutchess County, N. Y. Eastern dairymen had pooh-poohed the idea of large-scale beef cattle raising in dairy-farming New York...
Letourner and Debaets had squabbled over a girl. The race press-agents diligently nurtured their feud, even persuaded them to pose for newspictures, shaking fists at each other. Once during last week's race Letourner took a punch at Debaets for cutting in front of him. Debaets pulled the Frenchman off his wheel and both men went sprawling. Letourner was fined $25. Debaets' partner, Norman Hill, a handsome youngster from San Jose, Calif., is all-around bicycle champion...