Word: punching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most part fresh as no Broadway show will ever be, inspired, perspiring, untiring, and at times downright comical. At no time will it be mistaken for a page from Hans Christia nor John Murray Anderson; there are, however, moments in it when the mournful editors of Punch and Life would wish to God they had thought of that first...
...State Representative) in New York, speaking before a political gathering of women, exclaimed: "And the cowardice of their [scandal investigators'] attacks reached its culmination when Mr. Vanderlip assailed the reputation of a dead President who could make no answer to those accusations. What Mr. Vanderlip needs is a punch in the jaw to bring him back to a realization of a proper sense of values." Mr. Vanderlip wrote young Mr. Davison a letter, saying: "I am an old friend and admirer of your father and knew you when you were a small boy, and I was pleased when...
...died at last from forty-seven Tumblers of punch he drank one even: (O'er-thrown by punch, unharmed...
...Rickard in his counting house counted his receipts. The fame of Berlenbach had sold every reserved seat two days before the fight. On the newsstands, Berlenbach's picture covered the front page of The Muscle Builder, a "McFadden publication." Inside the cover Berlenbach told How I Got My Punch. Crowds reached beyond Fifth Avenue in an attempt to see the eleventh knockout...
...dance which will be held from 10 to 4 o'clock Friday night in Memorial Hall. The committee gave special emphasis to the fact that men will be allowed to bring to the hall only a small rug, and that they will have to provide their own punch bowl, ladle, and glasses. Each box will have been provided with a small table and table-cloth, as well as a sufficient number of cane-seated chairs. The committee further gave warning that box chairmen are responsible for any breakage or damage in their boxes...