Word: punching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hard work and an attack of grippe , had greatly weakened him, and his friends, realizing this, instructed attendants to put before him while he was speaking glasses of hot punch (grog americain), instead of the usual glasses of cold, sweetened water...
Died. Sir Henry Lucy ("Toby, M.P."), 79; at Hythe, England. He sat in the Press Gallery of Parliament during three reigns, was for 35 years author of The Essence of Parliament in Punch...
...slighting remark followed by a punch...
...PERIL?Cynthia Stockley?Putnam ($2.00). Peril is in this case the heroine. She is a heroine, too, of the old school, a back-to-nature heroine, against a background of curious African vegetation. Into Peril's Rhodesian garden come two swashbuckling gentlemen of fortune. Their names, respectively, are Punch Heseltine, Major of Mounted Police, and Pam Heseltine, his cousin. Unhappily, Pam has permitted himself the luxurious indiscretion of a wife, who turns out to be a beguiling, insidious dabbler in the subtler sorceries. The book oscillates from the fragrance of the veldt, to moments of acute excitement, particularly while...
Charles S. Chaplin: "In Hollywood, I entered a restaurant with Mary Miles Minter and other friends. At an adjoining table sat a group, among them Mildred Harris, my divorced wife. One of the men di-rected a slighting remark at me, followed the jibe with a punch. I retaliated; the fight became general. Other diners rushed in, separated us. Next day I appeared with a bona fide black eye. Reports said I claimed it to be a publicity stunt, admitted to have been caught off guard." Mrs. Daniel Guggenheim, (See Page 5): "At the Madison Square Garden Poultry Show...