Word: punching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stockmarket and the count is suspected of being a fake, writing a bad check, stealing the engagement pin he has given his fiancée and running away in a stolen car. In a weak third act he returns to disprove all charges and the family revives its punch-drunk fortunes in the stockmarket. Characters: the raucous, cynical daughter (Claire Carleton), the daughter in love (Nancy Sheridan), the lazy, acquisitive son (David Morris), the shrewd, big-hearted mother incapable of discipline (Helen Lowell), the speculating uncle, the unsuccessful suitor who makes pig faces to register loutishness, the stereotyped count...
...small opus entitled The Behavior of Consumption in Business Depression. Its author was Arthur R. Tebbutt, instructor in Business Statistics. It was a nice dry statistical study tending to show by many tables just how much con- sumption fell off from 1929 to 1932, but it packed a punch in its conclusions-a punch at the theories behind the Industrial Recovery...
...next three reels of Tugboat Annie show a few more of the things Annie has to put up with. At a reception on board the Glacier Queen, Annie snatches so many glasses of punch away from her husband that she gets tipsy herself. Alec persuades his employer to give Terry a job. Terry gets drunk, makes embarrassing remarks about Alec's fondness for the employer's daughter. Finally one day when Annie is ashore trying to borrow money for new boilers, Terry takes the Narcissus for a spin in the harbor, rams a ferry boat while turning around...
...Barbary Coast was doomed in 1911 when California's present Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. began his first of five terms as San Francisco's mayor. The actual knockdown punch was dealt by Hearst's San Francisco Examiner in a typically furious crusade. The conp-de-grâce came in 1917 when the State Supreme Court upheld a Red-light Abate ment Act, permitting the city to proceed in civil court against owners of property used for immoral purposes. For a few gloomy years "the Coast" tried to subsist on tourist trade by pretending...
Finally Ambassador Bowers caught Premier Azana and delivered his diplomatic punch. Mr. Bowers knew that the Premier could not antagonize the Guardia Civil, chief prop of Spanish law & order under the Republic as it was under the Monarchy, but surely bail-high if necessary-could be arranged? As Minister of War the Premier is Commander of the Guardia Civil. He conferred with its chiefs in Madrid, then cabled orders to Mallorca...