Word: punching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon after the onset of Hansel und Gretel came telegrams of praise. Director Giulio Gatti-Casazza, pleased as Punch, had been popping to & from the backstage office of Press Agent William J. ("Billy") Guard, where a receiving set had been installed. Chairman Cravath was impressed. "A miracle! . . ." said Radio Conductor Walter Johannes Damrosch. The engineers who had succeeded in making the whole country (and several further parts of the world) an opera house, said that the old part-wooden Met was much easier to work with than Chicago's handsome new opera house, whose concrete tends to give off bass...
Clark Gable has now been leading man to each of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's three leading stars. In A Free Soul he delivered a punch to the chin of Cinemactress Shearer; in Susan Lenox he managed to control an impulse to do likewise to Greta Garbo. In this picture, his second with...
...Washington, Secretary Hurley, pleased as Punch with Rooseveltian support, declared: "This thing is getting to be a good joke but really, you know, I'm not a candidate. Besides I was for Charlie Curtis in 1924. I was for him in 1928. I'm still...
Following the drill, the B and C elevens had an hour's hard scrimmage with the University Seconds while the A Team, with Ben Ticknor at center, ran through signals. No scores were kept but the B and C teams displayed a more impressive offensive punch than they have shown all season. The coaches were especially pleased with the blocking of the reserves. Pescosolido, nimble Sophomore back, was outstanding among the backs, while the veteran linesmen, Kuehn and Finlayson, as well as the newly promoted forwards, Brooks and Simmons, did good work on the line...
...other for the first time. Nat had the stronger team but Jack, who finds football a bore and only plays it, he says, for personal glory, seemed to be the better of the two. He scored the first touchdown made against N. Y. U. this year, put so much punch in the Rutgers secondary defense that N. Y. U. was lucky to win with four touchdowns, one of them made...