Word: punching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Owen Seaman, 71, who retired fortnight ago after 26 years service as editor of Punch-a baronetcy...
...stags don't pay a full price, and why should they cut in on someone else's expenditures. He glanced back, and realized that she did dance divinely, and looked a bit more beautiful tonight . . . it couldn't be just clothes. There was Freddie. Freddie had made the punch, and had been under the necessity of tasting it. Perhaps it would be better to avoid Freddie...
...gentle readers, across the shimmering floor, through the French doors, you may see the Vagabond by the punch bowl, and now again, O greater Audience, look up from your coffee and rolls, and there he is, ordering his own coffee and rolls. Look well, ye, for now he is more easily seen than he will be soon again...
...Galleries gave the first British showing of the wash drawings of Curtis Arnoux Peters, the New Yorker's slick, sexy "Peter Arno." The show was reviewed by that stuffiest of papers, the ultra-conservative Morning Post which promptly compared Arno's work to the line drawings in Punch. All honors went to Artist Arno. Wrote the Post in its best pontifical manner...
...nearly given up when another of those depressing waves reminded him. Punch, the hair of the dog! He leafed it through, enjoying the comfortable, gouty advertisements, all of health bread or tyres, or Haig, all with the chorus, the eternal chorus, Made in England. The Vagabond settled more evenly in the luxuries which They Won't Be Able to Have When They Graduate and ran through the Charivaria. English wit, English witl He glanced once again at the little man on the ass, just beneath Mr. Punch on the cover, and buried himself in Lalage's letter. England...