Word: punching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zealand. Omens were that the whole House of Commons will loyally cooperate to avoid unpleasant subjects until after the Coronation next May 12, and the House was slated last week for such work as raising Cabinet salaries a trifle, including that of the Prime Minister. This matter intensely English Punch presented in a drawing of the Good Fairy Britannia magically raising the emolument of the independently wealthy Stanley Baldwin (see cut). Intensely Canadian Lord Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard (which was pro-Edward and anti-Baldwin throughout the crisis) cartooned the Prime Minister with savage drollery as rolling about...
...Punch's caption: "A WELL-EARNED REWARD" "The Good Fairy, Britannia (to the Principal Boy)- "AND NOW TO PLEASE THE STALLS, THE PIT AND GALLERY, "ALLOW ME TO PRESENT A RISE OF SALARY...
...Stanhope. Its staff is 100% female, its regular contributors about equally divided as to sex, Bernard Shaw and the "Provincial Lady," Miss E. M. Delafield, sharing honors with Economist Sir Norman Angell and Novelist Rebecca West, Dramatist Sean O'Casey. "In England people have stopped reading Punch in favor of the New Yorker," said the publisher Viscountess, "and most intelligent English people read TIME every week, even though during recent months large sections have often been clipped...
Johnny Cave renders their hulking gorilla (Joseph Sawyer) senseless with one punch, has the ringleader arrested, locks the police captain out of the room while he settles his old score with the ward leader by mopping up the floor with...
Showing distinct after-effects of the Toronto encounter, the Varsity Hockey team nevertheless had enough punch to keep the Dartmouth sextet back on its heels and blanked them 2 to 0 Saturday night at the Garden. Captain George Ford's two tallies, registered at 13:03 and 19:10 of the final session, saved the Stubbsmen from what had all the earmarks, up to that time, of a scoreless deadlock...