Word: punching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your article was evidently written by someone who never saw Wildwood. I suggest he come here this summer. The fact that we will not punch his face or kick him in the pants, as he most justly deserves, will be evidence of our lack of hardness...
Following Thursday's disappointing showing against Tufts, Coach Fred Mitchell inserted now punch in his line-up against the Quakers. Bob Gannett broke into the batting order, playing right field with Jim Sullivan patrolling left, while Johns, still wobbly on his spiked heel, returned to his position at second...
...George William Brown, who brandished his umbrella at the mobsters, and 50 policemen who overawed the crowd with their drawn revolvers. Fifteen citizens and soldiers were killed that day. Next thing Baltimore knew, Federal guns were staring from Federal Hill, and the city was under the thumb of officious, punch-drunk General Benjamin ("Beast") Butler. A warm Southern sympathizer and States' rights man. Publisher Abell had his choice of keeping editorially mum or being deprived of his newspaper, thrown in jail. He kept mum. While even Union sympathizers were being jailed by the military in unhappy Baltimore, the Government...
Deficit. The punch behind the President's economy drive was his revealing an estimated deficit of $2,557,000,000 for the fiscal year ending two months hence ($309,000,000 bigger than anticipated) of a $418,000,000 deficit for fiscal 1938 when the Budget was supposed to balance. Primary cause of these deficits is the failure of actual revenue to come up to the expectations of last January. This meant that instead of the public debt reaching a peak of $35,026,000,000 on July 1 and then receding, it would kee on going...
...House recoiled from this nose punch, Mr. Chamberlain tried to strike a more cheerful note by declaring that he would show no mercy to tax-avoiders, who deprive the Exchequer of millions of dollars each year. This raised a cheer but the House soon relapsed into gloom...