Word: punches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Dorothy Sands, who is taking the part of Nelia-Anne, a "bound-out" girl, was one of the charter members of the company. She played Pastora and Miss Mercy in the plays of those names produced in 1921, and took the part of Judy in "A Punch for Judy", in the same year. What has been considered one of her finest interpretations was that of Gismonda, an Italian lady of the Renaissance period, in "Torches", one of the plays...
...recent convention in Seattle, voted that any man who could show his little red card to a freight train employe should be given a free ride. And the hobos, as such, held high revel not long ago in a well known New York hotel with tomato soup for punch and Irish stew for supper. Remarkable transformation! Fifty years ago the unemployed could do nothing but die quick deaths in the "workus". Now they go abroad in private cars and high-powered automobiles, and dine as guests of the government...
...these two young and spirited gentlemen were devoted to a form of idol worship, but the tribute which they laid at the altar of love is nothing compared to the tributes which present followers of the sport lay before all manner of altars, including that of the Knock-out Punch, Good Looks, the Dome-run Swat, and of multifarious others. For years Valentine's idle heroine worship has been the only religion of a young "louyere and a lusty bachelor", but now the "irrepresible vitality of youth" does not let him rest content until he has gone far afield...
...offensive when yet deep in its own territory, and just so often the advance stopped at the crucial moment partly through the stiffened Crimson defence and partly through the sheer fatigue of the powerful Blue backs. The long advances told on the Eli eleven and it lacked the final punch when that punch became essential...
...been all that could be desired. With Princeton's ability to run back punts Harvard's downfield work will have to improve if Harvard is to hold her own in that department. The chief Harvard fault so far this year has apparently been lack of offensive drive and punch. Several times in earlier games, as well as in the Dartmouth game, the Harvard team has been held near the opponent's goal line. This is a bad sign in spite of the fact that on each such occasion incoming substitutes may have disorganized the attack somewhat. It will have...