Word: punching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scrimmage lasted for about an hour more with teams B and C tearing off gains against the scrubs but lacking the scoring punch...
There were no more than a normal number of celebrities. One of them met, shook hands with 22 Smith College girls. He and his wife inspected the ship. He liked the Punch and Judy shows; she, the kitchen. Stewards, officers knew who they were. Many passengers did not. They were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Billings Kellogg, en route to Paris...
Here is the big scene. You have been waiting for Major Powell to face his old servant after sleeping with his wife but, using the one-two punch that can be as effective in a play as in a prize-ring, Author Rideout does more than answer his suspense. The prancing Senegalese is a faithful friend to Israel Dubois; seeing that his friend and the officer have bad blood between them, he starts for the Major with his knife, and Israel Dubois, who has drawn gun to shoot his white master, feels the tug of an ancient loyalty and kills...
...Then this fool stepped back and swung his right against my jaw with every bit of his power. It landed flush, and stiffened me where I stood. Nobody saw the punch but Eddie Eagan who was standing there. And that was the last thing I remembered for two days...
...cheer of the evening and such remarks as: "There's a real guy, a colorful guy, for yuh." James Joseph Tunney, 30, pundit, who again demonstrated that the public can be damned, that he is the cleverest heavyweight boxer since "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, that he also has a punch which might well dispute Dempsey's reputation as peerless killer. Henry Ford, 65, who had a good time and whom few people noticed. Also present was Thomas Heeney, 29, hairy-chested blacksmith from New Zealand, who had never before been knocked out by a man's fist...