Word: punching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stringman acting on his own initiative in ignorance of present drastic Italian war news curbs. Admitting that he received this letter. Correspondent Emanuel chirped at the President of the Special Tribunal for Defense of the Realm: "If I should be so disrespectful of your office as to dare to punch you in the face, could the Honorable President say he had 'obtained' a punch in the face...
...winning first place in the Indoor Baseball League, a hard-hitting Kirkland nine slugged the Deacons into the lead for the All-Round Championship Trophy. With 115 points in baseball alone, Kirkland has piled up a total of 325. Chiefly through their scoring punch on the gridiron, the Winthrop athletes hold second place in the race, while last year's victors, the Bellboys, trail 85 points behind them...
...asks to have what the State pays the Royal Family readjusted in the light of their income from investments. Cried Jock last week, "No means test is applied to members of the Royal Family! Why should it be applied to the workers?" ¶ Received beamishly the maiden speech of Punch Humorist A. P. H. (Alan Patrick Herbert) who set out on his parliamentary career last week by wanting to reform "the indecent, cruel and hypocritical marriage laws of 'this country!" (TIME...
...with the habit could make up approximately one hundred books a year. This means that a very small minority do mark up books at the expense of all the rest. Were these few to be startled out of their semi-consciousness with a threat of real punch, the end of book mutilation would be effected...
...guest at the cocktail party became so intoxicated that he was asked to leave. George followed him to see he reached his own room safely. When he reached the foot of the stairs, the offending guest took a punch at him and ran out into the Yard...