Word: punching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stake & Risk. Overnight, they were given enormous significance by Alf M. Landon's decision to take a hand in the campaign. Pressed by his partisans to put some punch into his slumping campaign, the cautious Republican nominee had suddenly turned gambler, prepared to risk greatly for a great stake...
Alan Patrick Herbert, famed Punch humorist and M. P., popped up in the House of Commons to poke fun at recent Fascist demonstrations in London. Said he: "Between black shirts and red shirts I am one of those who cry, 'A plague on both your blouses.' They name themselves after their lingerie, whether black shirts, blue braces, pink pants or dirty drawers...
...boss, rakes up a 20-year-old murder story as material for a serial play Sin Doesn't Pay. Glory Penbrook (Helen MacKeller) is the ex-murderess who commits suicide when the consequences of her grey past, horribly disinterred, menace her daughter's marriage. Even without the punch lines of Louis Weitzenkorn's dialog and its alien back-ground the situation is strong enough to be good entertainment for those who missed the original...
Fifty years ago last week, in the Park Row composing room of the New York Tribune, a bearded young German machinist named Ottmar Mergenthaler sat at an odd machine which looked like a cross between a power loom and a punch press. Beside him stood the Tribune's Editor Whitelaw Reid. As Ottmar Mergenthaler lightly tapped out letters on a keyboard before him, Mr. Reid heard the tinkling of brass type matrices falling into place. The rack of matrices was shunted to a bubbling pot of lead inside the machine. As Editor Reid looked on, Machinist Mergenthaler touched...
...sent into the field. Next week will be held a great mass meeting near Homestead, at which the graves of the workers killed in the 1892 battle will be wreathed and Pennsylvania's Lieutenant Governor Thomas Kennedy, International Secretary-Treasurer of the U.M.W., will orate. Pleased as punch with the way the campaign was going Philip Murray barked confidently: "No obstacle which might be thrown in the way of this committee will deter...