Word: punching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dark green shimmering ice, among the low rolling hills, and a certain Louis Seize drawing room where a joyful terrier momentarily basks before a crackling hickory fire, he wonders dimly how he will endure humdrum Cambridge till June. At this point in his cogitation he wanders absently to the punch bowl, and helps himself to a bit more, with a generous spike...
...Jayvees, coached by H. H. Broadbent '32, former Harvard captain, have been handicapped during the season by a weak passing attack. Defensive work has been fairly strong, but a scoring punch was not available in the pinches. Strong teams have on the whole made up the opposition, with several textile school teams, such as Bradford-Durfee, administering their worst defeats...
...Jayvees, coached by H.H. Broadbent '32, former Harvard captain, have been handicapped during the season by a weak passing attack. Defensive work has been fairly strong, but a scoring punch was not available in the pinches. Strong teams have on the whole made up the opposition, with several textile school teams, such as Bradford-Durfee, administering their worst defeats...
...derived from their betters, leads the students to support Hoover because it is the thing to do, or to support Roosevelt because he sounds so nice and liberal, even though they know you can't prove it. Those men who might be politically minded find themselves confronted with a Punch and Judy show in very bad taste. Naturally they turn away. And with two outstanding Government professors supporting a candidate who is on every side of every fence on a plea of "practical" politics, my sympathies are with the students. It is hard to see without light. J. P. Hall...
...Author. U. S. readers who chuckle and sniffle over her books may be pleased to know that Rosamond Lehmann has U. S. blood, comes from the same family as Playwright Owen Davis. Her father, the late Rudolph Chambers Lehmann, was on Punch's editorial staff, was better known as one of England's mightiest oars. Aged 31, Authoress Lehmann is married to Arlist Wogan Phillips, nephew of towering Lord Kylsant who spent the past year in jail for malfeasance in connection with the affairs of the Royal Mail Line (TIME, Aug. 12, 1931 et seq.). Like Infant James...