Word: punching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problem still bothering confused British newspaper readers last week was the color of the horse Marshal Badoglio rode into Addis Ababa. Wrote E. V. Knox in Punch...
...native of St. Louis, leaped into the picture as Amor (Love), wearing white tights and great white wings. Dancer Dollar's function was to lead Dancer Christensen to the entrance of Hades, a giant cage contraption which housed furies and scarlet demons who proved no more terrifying than Punch & Judy puppets...
...Arnold took up this kind of entertaining as a livelihood. Once she tried to operate without bookers, found she could get no girls. Her girls, she said, charged whatever a man would pay, usually $2 to $4. She kept a running total of each one's earnings by punching neat green cards. "If a customer paid $2," she explained, "I'd punch two. If the next one paid $3, I punched five. If the next one paid $4, I punched nine." A card offered as evidence showed that one of her girls had collected $46 between...
...rare mood of humility, Castoria's Blair, an amiable whirlwind who habitually uses three telephones at once, referred his colleagues to the recent rash of books debunking the proprietary medicine industry, admitted: "We realize that to sell goods, advertising must have a punch. But we must fight to maintain our high standards, in an effort to eliminate the unscrupulous manufacturer. The packaged medicines industry has fought its way through gradual and quickening changes until it is outstanding for its exact standards, its scientific controls and its modern methods of packaging and distribution. In spite of their unfair premise...
Slim Curtiss, with nine wins to his credit, will take the mound, while the Crimson batting punch should continue to lie in the bats of slugging first baseman Lupe Lupion and outfielder Bobby Gannett...