Word: punched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...system. Chief critic was Louisiana's loud Long who offered an amendment whereby the President could sweep every bank in the land under the shelter of the Federal Reserve. Senator Glass whose antipathy toward Senator Long is so great that two days later he angrily tried to punch his nose, bitterly flayed the Long proposal. Ensuing wrangle...
...Proud as Punch of his double victory, Premier Daladier announced that he would go to London March 15 "to discuss war debts and other major international problems" with Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. After that it will be necessary to make an end of hand-to-mouth financing and really balance France's budget...
...recorded as the best-looking stage drawing room on Broadway. Miss Bankhead's lazy walk, assured head-tossings and general air of supersophistication are interesting: one understands why London "gallery girls" formed Tallulah Bankhead clubs. Her performance is as smooth and exciting as a planter's punch. You will probably not be able to recall what it was that she and clever Fred Keating said that made you chuckle, but you will remember chuckling...
Westbrook Pegler commented: "The prize fight laws recognize punching on the head as quite legal, barring only the rabbit punch [chopping the back of the neck] which is often permitted, nevertheless, so if there must be prize fighting, there must be fatalities and also a regular crop of mental defectives...
...Gene Tunney was a hard man to hit around the head, but Tunney also had this fear. He was smart enough to know that one hard punch delivered at the right spot might leave a lasting effect...