Word: punching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus Leftists last week continued the game of distracting General Franco. As long as they can punch him from one side, make him turn in that direction, then punch him from the other, they can keep him from following his own plan of battle. In the process they might possibly land a lucky haymaker. Meanwhile General Franco, fighting not only the Leftists but the heat which reached 113°, relied chiefly on his sun-baked Moorish riflemen, last week made relatively little progress in straightening out the dents in his fronts...
...interested in the child market, still hopes to get his dish onto hotel and night-club menus, where it would be served in place of a cordial, act as a "combination of cocktail and dessert," contain all the elements of both "with the ingredients of a milk punch" thrown...
Next day on Broadway, slow-motion newsreels revealed what had actually happened during those incredible 124 seconds. Schmeling was knocked down three times in the fastest and most furious attack in ring history. No foul blow was struck. The decisive punch was a violent right to the jaw (after five rapid hooks) that landed so squarely Schmeling's hair shook like a mop. The body blows that followed, when Schmeling was hanging glassy-eyed on the ropes, were just for good measure. The famed kidney punch, by this time almost an international incident, was a blow to the short...
With this rabbit punch at his foes, white-goateed Statistician Roger Ward Babson last week rudely suggested that famed Helen Keller be elected to succeed him as moderator of the general council of the Congregational and Christian Churches. Shocked bigwigs of the church council, which was holding its biennial convention in Beloit, Wis., hastily apologized to Miss Keller for "the public use which has been made by Mr. Babson of the name of Miss Helen Keller in a most unkind and undignified manner...
Died. Edward Verrall Lucas, 70, old and mild English essayist (Wanderings and Diversions, The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb), Punch contributor, head of the publishing house of Methuen & Co.; after an operation; in London...