Word: punching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Compared to this second design, the fantastic curtain revel-in fact the whole Chicago opera organization-becomes no more than Punch-&-Judy. Yet it is Punch-&-Judy on the very largest scale. To make the scale larger, the Chicago company is sent, in the Insull manner, all over the country on tours; not special engagements in a few big cultural capitals like Baltimore, Washington, Atlanta and Cleveland where Otto Hermann Kahn's Metropolitan goes; but country-wide expeditions-Boston, Buffalo, Columbus, Nashville, Birmingham, Jackson, Dallas. San Antonio, El Paso, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Fresno, Sacramento, Oakland. Amarillo, Tulsa, Lincoln...
...Florida line weighs on an average 185 pounds against 187 for the starting Crimson forward wall, while the Southern backs present a figure of 178 to the 172 of the Harvard ball carrying quartet Scarcely a light outfit, but one carrying plenty of speed and punch...
...rope, and feeling his mouth with his glove. Something about his attitude suddenly gave the people at the ringside the shocking realization that he was unconscious. Later that night after Sharkey, jubilant, had gone to a nightclub with his wife, the rumor that Loughran had died of the punch on his way out of the stadium led friends to call up his manager, one Joseph Smith, who said "Oh my God, no, no, no." Sharkey claims the world's heavyweight championship, but to make his claim good must beat Max Schmeling, now resting at home in Germany...
Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin of Alabama publicly pined for an encounter with Congressman De Priest in the Senate restaurant. The Senator "calculated" that to "punch De Priest in the nose" would be worth at least 50,000 Alabama votes for him in his hard fight for re-election next year...
...young lady advertised for gifts of canceled stamps in the London Times in 1841. By 1842 Punch had another fad to ridicule. The fad spread to the U. S., and last week hundreds of stamp collectors convened at Minneapolis for the 44th annual meeting of the American Philatelic Society, largest of such U. S. bodies. They swapped stamps and stamp stories, spoke familiarly of "Luzons" (Philippine issue), "Bull's-eyes" (elliptically shaped Brazilian issue), compared albums. Seldom in the history of Minneapolis have there been so many pairs of tweezers in town. Stamp-men tweeze their treasures to avoid smudging...