Word: punches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is no question about the punch on the left leg with a right ?a punch on Sharkey's left leg by Dempsey's right. It was a sweeping blow which glanced off the leg and it was followed by Dempsey's left to the solar plexus, which was the decisive blow as I saw it. When Sharkey got the solar plexus punch he grunted. Before the solar plexus blow was delivered and after the right landed on Sharkey's left leg, I was stepping in toward the men, saying: 'Watch your punches, Jack.' Then, realizing there were...
...quite as mad as Mark Twain over the "Punch, brothers! Punch with care!" jingle in your story about the Twentieth Century Limited, but I was sorry that you did not mention other famous American trains. Certainly the Broadway Limited of the Pennsylvania R. R. which runs between New York and Chicago in 20 hours, the magnificent trains of the Santa Fe which daily swoop across the deserts, and the many luxurious trains which speed from New York and Chicago to Florida and New Orleans deserved a mention in your story...
...PUNCH brothers! PUNCH with care...
...PUNCH in the presence of the PASSen-jare...
...brakemen were seldom "set up" as conductors before they had managed to lose a finger or two. Conductor Kennedy's hands and memories are as smooth as a college professor's. The shield-shape perforation which he carefully makes in your ticket, in your presence', is done with the punch he used on his first passenger trip...