Word: punching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hood (1922). Replacing Douglas Fairbanks in Robin's bounding buskins is as much of a he-man's job as pinchhitting for Babe Ruth. In the current cinema lithe, lanky Errol Flynn hits no home run. but scores a clean two-bagger standing up. Lacking Fairbanks' punch and ken. he has Robin's form and flair down pat. If prankish Actor Fairbanks was a man's Robin Hood, handsome, romantic Actor Flynn performs for everybody else. A head-thumping, sword-swishing, bow-twanging technicolor attempt to foreshorten the popular episodes of the Soo-year...
Although the outfield lacks the batting punch that Mitchell so needs, Joe Soltz in left, Bob Gannett in center, and Rud Hoye in right will be assigned to the outer garden, with a possibility of either Dick Hall or Frank Weiner replacing Gannett in case the opposition uses a left handed pitcher...
...fall he will probably control 72 votes at the next Democratic National Convention, might easily have the deciding say on who got the Presidential nomination. That is the biggest piece of the political booty over which Keystone State Democrats, having despoiled the Republicans in 1934, continued to gouge, rabbit-punch and foul each other last week, with the May 17 primary just 20 days away...
Another change in the lineup may be seen soon in an attempt to increase the team's batting punch. Neither Joe Soltz or Rud Hoye in the outfield have been impressive to date. There seems to be a possibility that Fulton may move to third, allowing Dave Shean to take his old position in left field...
...Punch readers last week saw Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain watching like a pastoral shepherd the cooing of doves of peace and the gamboling of two spring lambs, respectively the British Ambassador to the Kingdom of Italy, Lord Perth, and Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law (see cut). To a loudly cheering audience in his native Birmingham last week, the Prime Minister predicted that when the Anglo-Italian Treaty which Perth & Ciano have now negotiated in Rome is made public officially "It will be found that it is not the Prime Minister who has been...