Word: punching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Parades there will be, also, of course-a gala at the Opera, receptions by committees of French women for Legionnaires' wives, mothers; and for Legionnaires' children, guignol (Punch & Judy...
...prisoner had told him in confessional. Just as the confidences of a lawyer's or doctor's client are privileged in U. S. courts, so this priest insisted were his confessional secrets. The public prosecutor cajoled and bullied; the priest remained obdurate. The judge ended the Punch & Judy show by fining the priest one Swiss franc ($0.1923) for contempt of court, and dismissing him as a witness...
...years ago. Every morning he begins to spar. Pretty soon he thinks he will have to meet another champion. In the bright sun, he dances around a shadow ducking, weaving, driving his long arms to hit a body that is not there. He has invented a new punch to use in his next championship bout...
Ripe, laughing wenches-half a score of them-took turns at dancing with their future King and Emperor when Edward of Wales visited the excessively plebeian Lambeth Carnival one night last week, and later moved on to quaff punch with sailors and their dolls at the Union Jack Club...
...There is another man who has read 'Punch' omnivorously every day for two years. He has mastered the complete set dating from 1894 and is now anxiously waiting for the 1926 volume...