Word: punched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard sackmen's work at the plate. The battery staff is all that can be desired, and the University squad is able to put a good defensive team on the diamond, but in order to have anything but a mediocre season Coach Mitchell must give his players batting punch...
...Levy, quickly proved that Miss Harris had had promiscuous affairs with various men of assorted races and colors for several years, that Dr. Davidson had made various efforts to get her to change her mode of life, and once saved her from a lover who was trying to punch her face. "All right, all right," said Miss Harris, "but when he came to my room he didn't talk about religion. ... He wanted to show me his appendicitis scar." This unveiling was prefaced by one of Dr. Davidson's favorite jokes. Miss Harris repeated it thus...
...advanced, his gloves now at his head for relief from the hammering it was getting, and now in furious, smashing action against the ribs and head of his opponent. The little fighter's flat nose, freshly broken, bubbled redly as he snorted for breath. His head rocked as punch after punch landed on it. But on & on he went, crowding, slamming, tearing in like a madman trying, to whip a triphammer. Madison Square Garden, jammed to the eaves, thundered with bloodthirsty applause and excitement...
...important date in the development of Thomas Nast as an artist. That week Sir John Tenniel published a biting cartoon in Punch on the subject of the Alabama Claims* showing the U. S. as a bloated Falstaff demanding £400,000,000 from the bearded Prince of Wales, Edward VII, as the price of his love. Plump Tommy Nast raged at the subject, but admired the technique. A month later he replied with a full page in Harpers Weekly of an even fatter John Bull Falstaff, drawn in the same manner. In this adaptation of the Tenniel technique he thereafter...
...unusually deft with the strings is giving the miniature vaudeville under the auspices of the division of Music for the benefit of the Cambridge Chapter of the MacDowell Colony. The four acts to be presented are "The Two Beans", "A Korean Legend", "The Rabbit Ballet", and "The Punch and Judy Waltz". In "The Rabbit Ballet" four characters appear on the stage simultaneously, an unusual feat...