Word: punching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Were it not for my extreme faith in the Cunard White Star Line, I would have been somewhat bewildered by the statement (TIME, June 8) of A. P. Herbert, Punch's M. P., that there is a plate on the promenade deck of the Queen Mary recording that Lord Burghley ran a circuit of the deck-570 yd.-in 58 seconds, "untrained and unchanged...
...prizefight reporters & public overlooked last week was the fact that the first-class heavyweights Louis had fought did not include one who was reasonably quick, intelligent and courageous. Consequently, Press & public were unaware that Joe Louis had not yet learned how to defend himself from a straight right-hand punch on the jaw. Max Schmeling revealed this shocking omission in the fourth round of the fight. Superman Louis flopped down on his haunches...
...zebrano, bubinga, makore, tiger oak, patapsko, peroba, pomla, blackbean. Some of the wood had been sprayed with aluminum glaze and gleamed like silver. Definitely and handsomely the keynote of the Queen Mary's modernistic decoration is wood, wood, wood. Witty new Member of Parliament A. P. Herbert, famed Punch contributor, wrote on sailing day, "As for the cabins-as for the eiderdowns, and the spacious beds, and the cupboards and looking-glasses and bathrooms . . . some British Homer should . . . describe where grew the trees that gave those polished panels, what cunning joiner it was that fitted them, what sempstress...
...Punch's droll Herbert could not leave off without proposing that "upon the Hot Seat or Vibrating Chair which jiggles" in the gymnasium, the Cunard White Star line should screw another commemorative plate: "HERE SAT, WITH HIS ACCUSTOMED DIGNITY AND CHARM, SIR HORACE DAWKINS, THE REVERED CLERK AT THE TABLE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, AND WAS VIBRATED AFTER A GOOD LUNCH, MAY 16TH...
...Finally Punch printed a cartoon, sensational in England, elfinly recalling that while efforts were being made to get the Queen Mary down the river on which she was built and out to sea, she became stuck at both ends (TIME, April 6). Punch, showing a canal barge in the same predicament, had its helmsman cry to the barge captain: "Don't forget, Cap'n, the same thing happened to the Queen Mary...