Word: punching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called the Sapolio. When Captain Andrews turned up at Christopher Columbus' home port two months later, he stole the show from reproductions of Columbus' fleet which had sailed to publicize the Chicago World's Fair. Sapolio's name became so well-known in Europe that Punch made a bad joke to the effect that children knew it better than Napoleon...
Since the days when Don Quixote went out and charged a windmill many a man has gone crusading for his crotchets. In the pages of London's augustly humorous Punch, Alan Patrick Herbert has for years been waging a single-handed combat against four humorless ogres: Prohibition, the Divorce Law, Commercializing the Thames, Bad English. Last week, in What a Word!, he collected his scattered witticisms against the murderers of His Majesty's English, proclaimed a jehad: "I declare a new and ruthless Word War; and I invite all lovers of good words to buckle on their dictionaries...
Thence here and there until 5:30 whereupon by water--where I did meet a few of the boxing team who were still a little punch drunk--to Cambridge. And I was glad at my heart to learn that Professor Kittredge on Wednesday is speaking at Dunster House on "the Pedant...
...hrer's slugging last week consisted of a body blow to the already groggy Treaty of Versailles and a below-the-belt punch at the Locarno Pact, which was not in any sense imposed on Germany by the victorious Allies but freely entered into by the Fatherland...
...PUNCH'S PROGRESS - Forman Brown - Macmillan ($2). Lightly amusing narrative of trouping with marionettes, by one of the founders of the group which later be came known as the Yale Puppeteers...