Word: punches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Irishfolk applauded Charles A. A. Bennett, Yale faculty wit and philosopher, last week, when he said in Dublin, Ireland: "The British humorous weekly Punch presents distorted, snobbish, and inaccurate pictures of American life and manners in its cartoons. . . . Wars tend to be provoked by such fostering of ignorant prejudices. . . . Much of the American slang distorted by Punch is vigorous and expressive instead of vulgar...
From bank to bank, from bar to bar, news of ousted Tilden spread. Even before EXTRAS appeared, groups of U. S. undergraduates were arguing bitterly about "a dirty rabbit-punch from back home/' The minority side of the argument was that "the young players were better off without Tilden bossing them around, anyway." Frenchmen, almost without exception, said that Tilden had been treated unfairly.*They had heard a rumor that Lacoste was going to write articles for American newspapers.† The Parisian mind could not bring itself to understand what writing had to do with tennis eligibility. Not since...
McLarnin-McGraw. James McLarnin, lightweight who has a cherub's face and wears a harp on his bathrobe, who knocked out Sid Terris with one punch but who couldn't lay a glove on Champion Samuel Mandell, feinted with his left last week in Madison Square Garden, then crossed his right to the retreating but tough chin of Phillip McGraw, lightweight from Marathon, Greece, knocking him through the ropes into the lap of one of the judges. McGraw climbed back, was knocked down three times more, after which, amid cries of "Stop it," Referee Dorman lifted Mc-Larnin...
Hudkins-Walker. Ace Hudkins, pal of Charles Lindbergh, bouquet-lover, and broken nosed punch-drinker who fights flail-fisted, lunged after middleweight champion Mickey Walker in a wet ring in Chicago. Rain on the canvas was stained with the blood that flowed from the lips and noses of both men. Walker won two rounds, Hudkins five, the rest were even. When the referee, with finger pointing at Walker, yelled "The winner, and still champion. . . ." the crowd jumped up and booed for 15 minutes...
...battle is an indirect by-product of the fighting about the historic tree. Furthermore, the Class of 1838 was the first to invite mothers, sisters, and sweethearts to the celebration, the affair up to that date being hardly favorable for feminine attendance because of liberal libations of iced ruin punch...