Word: punching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...display posters on the bulletin boards of the Houses and University buildings advertising their competitions and their wares. In the past these posters have dealt with some sort of business, but last week there blossomed out a set of posters advertising a social function for Freshmen candidates: a rum punch. Despite the fact that rum punches are one of the choicest methods of spending a few hours, the public attempt to lure Freshmen to extra-curricular activities by such means is likely to be deceptive to the Freshman and certainly does not shed any glory on the College...
...organization to ask a group of unknown Freshmen to a rum punch implies that to make good with that organization Freshmen must come to the punch. And this is likely to lead men to the habit of drinking during their Freshman year, a thing that is not necessary either for any organization's success or for the success of Freshmen...
...which most easily fires Nazis and they fairly ate it up. Soon even the London Times, frequently pro-German, sympathetically observed "the Italian demand for parity is comprehensible." Geneva was seen to have contributed precisely the psychological ingredient Dictators Mussolini and Hitler needed to give their meeting this week punch and purpose in the minds of Italians and Germans-they can cut the figure of Fascist brothers struggling for equality against the oppressive forces of Democracy...
...appear later in small beads on the surface of the plaster. Then they tried butyl alcohol (butanol) with the same ingredients. This worked, but made the plaster surface too soft to work on. The final formula was the simplest: equal parts of butanol and water. Muralist Rivera, pleased as Punch, confirmed their claim that spraying walls with this preparation every three or four hours enables a painter to work twice as long on one section or to apply plaster to twice as large an area of wall at one swipe...
...spies, obstructed from netting the fluttering virginity of a beautiful child Baroness (Danielle Darrieux). Following the type of all well-bred monarchical romances, the Prince enjoys himself most when sharing incognito the simple pleasures of the poor. At the Prater, he spends an idyllic evening at the Punch-&-Judy show, throwing hoops round the necks of swans. Ordered next night to a command performance of the opera, he sees his dreamgirl, a shy debutante, take her mother's box for the first time. By secret assignations they share many a trystful profile, give U. S. audiences ample reason...