Word: punching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...family, Evangeline Adams began studying astrology when she was 18. She has read widely in all fields of the occult and in the classics of all ages. Today, in her late fifties, she writes and talks (usually out of the right side of her mouth) with a vigorous punch. In her new book, Astrology: Your Place in the Sun* she says: "The wise man cooperates with the stars, the fool thinks he rules them...
...Punch's Pocket Book's" and "Kate Greenaway's Almanacs and Calendars" make up the New Year's exhibition in the Widener Treasure Room this week...
...Pacific players in the name of Christmas charity. To be sure, the triumph of Far Western football was slightly alloyed by the potent presence in their line-up of Joel Hunt from the Texas Aggies. Hunt scored a touchdown three minutes after the game began and stopped a punch on the jaw from Weinstock, Western Maryland tackle, just before it ended. Weinstock was ejected from the game. Between these Eastern mishaps the West scored another touchdown and a safety, the East one touchdown. Score...
...Granta, published by the members of Cambridge University (yes, the Lampoon's critic is from Oxford) offers an "American number." And besides being American it is a very entertaining number. The jokes are the jokes of Punch, but the hands are the hands of John Held...
...Morley is a graduate of Haverford College in Pennsylvania. He went to New College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar for three years with A. P. Herbert, editor of Punch, and after his return to America he joined Doubleday, Page, and Co. At this time he also wrote for Philadelphia and New York papers. Journalism later attracted him from publishing, and his column, the "Bowling Green", in the New York Evening Post, was a feature of metropolitan newspapers...