Word: punching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eagerness to up-to-datedly emulate mid-Victorian Punch's idea of being funny at Irishmen's expense TIME overlooks the fact that there were no potatoes in Ireland-or anywhere else in Europe-a thousand years ago. Will TIME forgive a slightly nauseated Irishman (Mick, Harp, Turkey, Flannel-mouth, if TIME prefers) if a mild passion for truth makes him a bit insensible to fun-loving TIME'S preference for what it deems to be humor...
...thought of an old trick, one which would never have fooled a clever or a more experienced fighter. He hit Carnera twice in the middle. When Carnera dropped his hands to protect his body, Sharkey led for Carnera's jaw, reached it with a right hand punch that caused Monster Carnera to give an astonished grunt and collapse...
...slides about the deck with evil looks for all. He captures and becomes the friend of a frog, which he keeps in his hat. He carries a cane which has a horn at one end, for no reason. Chased by the mate, he dives behind the curtain of a Punch & Judy show and pokes his shaggy head out in expressions of derision and despair. Groucho Marx makes friends with a gangster, throws a revolver into a pail of water. "It was necessary to drown the gat," he says, "but we saved a little gitten." Later he undertakes to discuss Love...
...room of the Hicks House, which is connected by a passageway with the Smith Halls quadrangle, will ultimately be given over to this collection. About three cases of the books, which will be given by the Roosevelt Memorial Association, have already been received, among them a complete file of Punch. Included in the collection will be about one hundred volumes from the original library of the late president, the rest being duplicates...
...traffic with all peoples. Like the cat that walks by himself all places are alike to him. So he girded up his loins and went to a Deb party. There were the girls, the widows from Winsor; there were the ushers, suave and important with gardenias; there were the punch bowls overflowing; there were great cascading bouquets. There were laughing faces and broken hearts and heels. There were immaculate dress shirts, and a soiled white dress. There was the fanfare of an orchestra and the husky croon of a singer. There were tinkling glasses and the dull thud...