Word: punched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard men are really uninitiated to the mysteries of the left hook and right cross to the jaw, there are those who will claim that jelly must be an important constituent of their backbones; for even in this age of soft living occasions come up when a stiff punch in the nose is called...
...impromptu scene was edifying. The picture of 3500 "well-groomed decent citizens"--the epithets are culled from the Associated Press--shouting at the top of their lungs to "punch" Lindsey, to "lynch him" is only slightly amusing to the cynic. More pleasing was the image of the battered advocate of companionate marriage, who is sincere if nothing else, being snatched from the rioters by four burly detectives. Howis of glee must attend the non-partisan when he reads that this formally attired herd docilely returned to their pews, no longer menaced by the black sheep, sand "Fight the Good Fight...
...nervous, scratchy pen sprang that sensational figure, the Gibson Girl, a majestic creature with an imposing pompadour, large bust and perfect Grecian profile. Women 35 years ago who did not look like Gibson Girls attempted to do so, just as their mothers had imitated the swanlike ladies of Punch's Illustrator John Leech, as their daughters ape the rowdy sirens of Peter Arno...
...Primo Camera, Italian Brobdingnag. His swing was short. Camera stretched out a long left hand and set him back on his heels. Squat, hairy-chested, his gold teeth gleaming in his dwarfish face, Paulino in his perpetual crouch, with his elbows swinging, resembled some kind of beetle that Camera, punching almost vertically, was trying to crush. He sidestepped many of Camera's left leads but could not get out of the way of the ponderous rights aimed at his body. Camera could slap down his guard and plank a punch over. He did not seem at first...
...reporter broadcasting at the ringside made the obvious comment that both men were getting set for a long fight. Suddenly something happened. Singer reached for Canzoneri with a left jab-reached a little too far. Canzoneri shot his own left over, jarring -the champion's jaw. The punch was not particularly hard, but it flustered Singer. He stepped back to get his bearings, then launched the flurry of punches any fighter turns loose when he has been hurt, to show that he has not been hurt. Canzoneri ducked, swung a right and then a short, lightning-fast left hook...