Word: punching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manner of Punch...
Henry Mayo Bateman, cartoonist for Punch: " Visiting Manhattan, I exclaimed: ' Your girls are dynamic, your humor stimulating, your skyscrapers magnificent, your traffic terrifying, your bathrooms overwhelming and your Broadway electrifying. When I want a trip to Hell, I simply enter the subway. I never dreamed there was a place where a man could put out people's eyes, smash them in the jaw, knock them down, kick them about and throttle them to his heart's content without anybody minding it in the least. It is a spiritual panacea, absolutely...
From the viewpoint of championship fighting the exhibition was a failure. It proved that Floyd Johnson lacks a punch. In the ninth round Willard dropped his gloves and allowed Johnson to pound his jaw with everything he had. When the desperate blows bounded harmlessly from the old man's head the truth was out. Johnson can never be a champion...
...wish we had a prospect of witnessing a meeting between that estimable lady and the Prosperous Gentleman on Plympton Street, for we feel sure that their reminiscences over a dish of tea or even an empty punch bowl would be fascinating history. There would be many things to recall of the old days in which there were of course, giants: ambrosial make-up meetings whence numbers issued more or less by mistake; the horrors of proof reading at dawn; the bitterness of controversy and mutual criticism; the tense excitement each has experienced in the turmoil of competition with more than...
...want to know where the circus freaks come from? The Billboard will tell you. "WANTED for 20-in-l-FREAKS. At all times. Glass- Blower, Sword Swallower, Fat Woman, Punch and Judy, Tattooed Lady...