Word: punching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...around man--me and somebody else--Barry Wendell--forget now--think better go home--bit tired--hard day--losing my punch--guess really better go--hand off--foot out--now--just stand...
...punch had flowed and the Vagabonds' reserve had flowed with it. He determined to abandon himself to the moment; he felt he had to abandon himself to something. As he passed down the steps onto Plympton Street he turned to look again upon the field of his victory. The pale light of early morning was just starting to spread the lemon fingers of disillusion over the field he had just quit. Several of his friends who "couldn't take it" were distributed severally in little heaps about the building, mute testimony to spirits that had passed away...
...Carey ('29), Latimer S. Steward ('29) and Dr. O. Currier McEwen, assistant dean of New York University's Medical College. At the reception and dance at Manhattan's socialite Colony Club, guests who remembered John Davison Rockefeller Jr.'s preElection switch in favor of Volstead Act repeal investigated the punch, found it strictly nonalcoholic. Afterwards Mr. & Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller III left for a month's honeymoon in Bermuda.* secretly boarded the S. S. American Legion, on which was a party of newshawks on vacation. Reception guests: Henry Ford. Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, Harold Fowler McCormick. Chase National...
...Thomas, to register. ¶ After John Marrinan. onetime private secretary to Herbert Hoover at the Department of Commerce, had declared for Roosevelt, he got a telephone call at his Washington home from Lawrence Richey, the President's detective-secretary. Marrinan's story: "Richey told me he would punch my nose and break me in two for the Roosevelt statement. He called me every name under the sun. . . . I'm an oldtime ball player but in all my experience I never heard any more blasphemous or profane language than he used to me." ¶ "Not a peep!" declared...
...difficult to realize with what angry cluckings it was hailed on its first exhibition. Only because Sir William Boxall, Whistler's friend, argued himself hoarse in its behalf did it get into the Royal Academy at all. Critic Tom Taylor of the Times (he also doubled for Punch) promptly criticized it as "ignoring all accepted canons of good drawing, good color and good painting." In 1881-82 the picture was shown in Philadelphia and New York. Nobody thought enough of it to bid the $1,000 Jimmy Whistler was asking. In 1889 Georges Clemenceau, already a figure in French...