Word: punching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would have been nonexistent without Chaplin, The Milky Way might have been a shade funnier if Producer Lloyd had cast someone other than himself in the leading role. Burleigh Sullivan (Lloyd), a craven milkwagon driver who, in order to preserve his feeble physique, has perfected the art of ducking punches, tries to rescue his sister (Helen Mack) from two drunks. When he ducks a punch from one of the drunks, it knocks out the other, who turns out to be Middleweight Champion "Speed"' MacFarland. Acclaimed for the knockout, Burleigh is urged by MacFarland's manager (Adolphe Menjou...
Author E. M. Delafield (Mrs. Arthur Paul Dashwood), a nice mixture of Jane Austen, Punch and her own "provincial lady," writes with malice aforethought but manages to leave a pleasantly salty aftertaste. Seldom frighteningly clever, she preaches entertaining sermonettes that make her listeners laugh out of both sides of the mouth, go chuckling home to Sunday dinner...
Almost but not quite so ugly as English bulldogs, boxers are a German improvisation arrived at by combining terriers, continental bulldogs and mastiffs. In Germany there are some 10,000 boxers, so named because when fighting they sometimes try to punch with their front paws. They are rivals to Doberman Pinschers in police work, popular as pets. By winning first prize in every show in which he has appeared, having himself declared "faultless" by Germany's best boxer judges, Dorian von Marienhof made it clear by the time he was 2 that he was the best boxer in Germany...
Coach Wes Fesler has made one change in the Harvard lineup. Art Snell will replace Jack Dampeer at guard. Vernon Struck will continue to provide the punch at the other guard post, with Bill Gray again at center, and Captain Leavy White and Ray Lavietes at the forward positions...
Fortnight ago in Washington, Dr. Townsend announced that the Townsendites would put a complete ticket in the field in 1936, with candidates for President, Vice President and Congress. Last week in Chicago Dr. Townsend pulled his punch on this third party threat by declaring: "This does not necessarily mean that in all States it would be necessary to exercise the third party prerogative. It is our hope that the attitude of one or both of the old political parties shall change toward the Townsend Plan and that their espousal of our cause will make it unnecessary to exercise the rights...