Word: punches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nervous Wreck (Harrison Ford). Owen Davis' play, turned into slapstick, presents the usual "Christie Comedy" stuff: Ches Conklin, Mack Swain. Phyl Haver, smashed dishes, broken pates, all whirling around in clownish jamboree, affording some measure of Punch and Judy merriment...
...times the Harvard first-year aggregation displayed a smooth, powerful attack, efficient in gaining ground alike by running plays and by the forward pass, but woefully lacking in a scoring punch. The play was in Exeter's territory most of the time, but half a dozen excellent scoring chances were tossed away; Devens missed three field goals by narrow margins, and one attempt by Wetmore was blocked...
...guests of the students must have complained of the mildness of the entertainment provided, for a few years later came a repeal of the law against punch-drinking: "It shall be no offense if the scholars, in a sober manner, entertain one another and strangers with punch, which, as it is now usually made, is no intoxicating liquor." On what grounds did the authorities make this last calm statement...
...guests at Bishop Ingram's parties were working-girls and bargees. During the War he held scores of services on the battlefront. The press has called him, at various times, the Omnibus Bishop, the King's First Bishop, the Breezy Bishop, the Bishop of the Slums. Punch one lampooned him in some gentle verses.* Before starting for the U. S. he offered his palace rent-free "to any churchman or churchwoman who will pay the salaries of the servants and the taxes on the house." Some years ago he stated that while his income...
...Punch...