Word: punching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cricket tests between England and Australia are played for a non-existent prize, the "Ashes." When Australia won the first test ever played, a wag in Punch said: ''The body of cricket lies in England but the ashes are in Australia." That was in 1876; a cricket joke lasts even longer than a test match. The fact that Englishmen make occasional quips about cricket, the leisurely routine in which the tests proceed, lead only stupid aliens to believe that the game is not serious. On the special car in which the Australian side traveled in England, a sign...
...South Sea Islands she received as "mandates" from the League, but means to keep them as integral parts of her Empire. By the time Premier Okada was through, most correspondents present were convinced that in failing to demand parity now, he was merely pulling for the present a punch which Japan will deliver as soon as she dares. But the Okada answers, when cabled to Washington, gave Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson a fine chance to proclaim loudly and publicly for the Roosevelt Administration the U. S. naval policy laid down by President Hoover when he called...
...battered his way to what he was after but did not know how to ask for. He is not a large man, but he is a furious and a mad one. Men left The New Yorker for sanitariums, they had fits on the floor, they wept, they offered to punch his nose (he is terrified of physical violence). But he kept on hiring and firing blindly. By hit or miss he found the individuals who could articulate his ideas?and who could stand the pace of his temperament...
...ABOUT?Archibald Marshall?Button ($3.50). Random reminiscences of Punch's gentlest contributor, England's quietest living novelist...
Newsmen in flannels and white linen danced, sipped punch, ate ice cream in the state dining room, showed their wives and friends through the ground floor rooms, down to the swimming pool and out on the terrace. Instead of retiring early as he does at state affairs, the President stayed up until 11:30 and Mrs. Roosevelt did not leave until 1:00. ¶ Congress sent President Roosevelt a bill to equalize nationalization rights for men and women and grant U. S. citizenship to children born abroad of U. S. mothers. The State Department reported to the White House that...