Word: punches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hogg. CHARACTER: "I think it would be true to say that his intellect has a punch in it, but not his personality. It is the fist of Carpentier, but the soul of Joe Beckett. One feels that if his intellectual equipment had been at the disposal of any ambitious politician it could not have failed to make its mark, and perhaps a permanent mark, on contemporary politics. . . . He suggests in his appearance that he would like fighting and dislike dirt. There is something military in his carriage and something pugilistic in his precise and vigorous face. He is also...
...Harvard team. Such an overwhelming defeat is explained by weaknesses in many departments of the game, which when all brought together in one contest, result in a disasterously feeble combination. Journalistic writers in general think the Crimson squad was slightly overtrained. This belief was gained by the lack of punch, pep, vitality or whatever one may wish to call it displayed last Saturday. But this can also be explained by the psychological effect made by the Tiger's first attack. It told Harvard that it was up against a strong Princeton team out to win and playing...
...remaining ten college comics which will send delegates to Harvard next months are the Black and Blue Jay from Johns Hopkins, the Brown Jug, the Chanticleer from Rutgers, the Columbia Jester, the Lehigh Burr, the Penn Punch Bowl, the Pitt Panther, from the University of Pittsburgh, the Carnegie Tech Puppet, the Royal Gaboon of Carnegie Tech, and the Yale Record...
...this is a man of straw, he has a pretty good punch. Don't tell me that this is not an issue. It is the whole issue. If it succeeds, it means chaos. Let even there be the first intimation of success and see what it does to that confidence upon which all prosperity is based...
...back his great shoulders, spreads his elbows and knees, settles and solidifies as if he were a statue in the park. He looks like Henry Ward Beecher with a touch of Barnum and a clout or two of John L. Sullivan. He is Paul Whiteman with a Babe Ruth punch. He is an American viking...