Word: punching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Somerville second story man committed the gravest blunder of his career the other night when he entered the apartment house in which Skip Stahley, Freshman football coach lives and was knocked cold by a single punch. He was revived some hours later in a Somerville police cell...
...when the occupant, a woman, saw him and started screaming. Stahley and a couple of companions heard him and stepped out to meet him. The thief came tearing down the fire escape and arrived on the ground just in time to run, with all his might, into a terrific punch from Stahley. He immediately fell to the ground and resigned himself to slumber...
...sparing of people who try to use the paper. . . . Better reporting on the sports pages. . . . Profanity . . . would be quoted as spoken or not at all. . . . There should be more strife between the rags. . . . The bosses ought to tell daily book reviewers to make one enemy a week, taking a punch in the nose if necessary...
London's tall, unarmed, polite police are adequate to deal with Englishmen, Scotsmen or Welshmen. But last week a heavy guard of Bobbies at Euston Station were swept aside like chaff by a crowd of grinning Irishmen who were more than willing to punch the nose of any officer who resisted. With shouts of "WE WANT DEV!", the Irish captured a platform up to which rolled a train bearing President Eamon de Valera. They clawed and climbed their way to the roof of the train -something which in England "isn't done" -cheered and waved Irish flags while...
...hoydenish city of fancy, flouncy ladies, sporting gents, muddy boulevards, the Widow O'Leary (Alice Brady) settles her brood in the pine-shantied "Patch," takes in washing, raises her boys, accumulates hard-earned comfort and Daisy, the cow. That Daisy's right hind hoof packs a punch that will bear watching is evident when she kicks young Bob (Tom Brown) into the arms of Gretchen, the house girl (June Storey), to settle the future of the youngest O'Leary. The eldest. Jack (Don Ameche), becomes a lawyer with lofty principles, low income. Dion (Tyrone Power), heir...