Word: punched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deals more with other people than the author's own life. And it is genial and pleasing and filled with the warmth of personalities, great and small. Throughout the author is delightful and humorous. He tells anecdotes and reprints satirical poems of his own and other writers from Punch; and yet he is able to interlard a great deal of sound criticism. With equal case he returns to his childhood and recaptures a naive delight in the verses of the Tailor sisters, two Victorian A. A. Milnes; or describes the sophisticated pleasures of making fun of his contemporaries...
Most delightful perhaps are the author's own contributions to the Globe and to Punch, his "Shilling Nonesence," and his literary recipes. Of the last the "Kippling Chutnee" might be quoted as an example: "This pickle has a pecular mordant quality which distinguishes it from all others. The chief ingredient is unwashed English, chopped, and broken, and bruised with a brazen instrument. Then work in chips and fragments of cynicism the seven cardinal sins, the 'Civil Service Regulations,' profanity, the Southern Cross, and genius. Spice with a Tipperary brogue...
Harvard's Scoring Punch...
Although the Indians have had a much harder early season schedule than Coach Casey's men, the general consensus of opinion grants that Hageman and his teammates have shown an unusual scoring punch thus far, and Dartmouth is hampered by having an entirely new and different offensive this year, built around Pop Warner's Stanford shifts, to which the Indian players have had some difficulty acclimating themselves...
...boys need now is some punch," Captain White told reporters last night. He was confident that his team would be able to break up the famed Hanover faux-passing attack...