Word: punching
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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President Eliot, chief speaker for the occasion, will deliver an address in the Living Room of the Union at 8 o'clock. Following his talk, a reception, at which punch will be served, will be held in the newly furnished club rooms on the second floor of the Union. The address by President Eliot will be open to all members of the Union as well as members of the associated territorial clubs, but the reception is to be only for members of the Federation...
Here is a play with "a punch." Nor is it the first of that sort which its author. Mr. Paul Armstrong, has done. Earlier this season we saw his "Deep Purple," while "The Greyhound," his latest product, is a current New York success. The offering at the Plymouth is more than generously supplied with thrills, and yet, on the whole, is so skilfully constructed and acted as to rise very high above the conventional play of the type...
Robert Edeson has the sort of "thuggish" role to which he is best suited. In the first act he tries to punch the other man's jaw; in the second he gets drunk; and in the third he goes mad. Where-upon the Spearmint-chewing lady who sits behind you murmurs, "He's just too cute for anything." Mr. Kemble is down on the program as "supporting" Mr. Edeson, but to him must go the honors of the evening. He played the part of Truth's guardian, defended her with more than fatherly zeal through all her matrimonial indiscretions...
...backfield, and Harvard lost. Of course the team was placed at a disadvantage by early injuries to Potter and Gardiner, and by the lack of a first-class punter, but even with these handicaps it would have won, had the offence had the power to make the last punch...
...usual Robinson variety. As has happened at Brown so often, there are a lot of chance-taking plays, and when these go, something interesting happens. Last season there was no eleven in the country whose team played such an open game as did Brown, although the team had a punch at the same time. The game in the Stadium Saturday should be a contest from the start. Harvard's defense surely will get a test--and the eleven so far has not met any team that could not be stopped dead in its tracks...