Word: punching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absolute poetry, a poetry in which the intention is not so much to arouse an emotion, or to persuade of a reality, as to employ such emotion or sense of reality (tangentially struck) with the same cool detachment with which a composer employs notes or chords." Other books: Punch, the Immortal Liar, Pilgrimage of Festus, Priapus and the Pool and Other Poems, John Deth and Other Poems, Blue Voyage (a novel), Bring! Bring! (short stories...
Reporters found one gloomy insurrectionist sucking away at a planter's punch in a cafe in Obispo Street. "At least," said he, brightening, "we spoiled Machado's fishing season...
...from some more personal reason, he may write the kind of vindictive book that shocks the public into attention. Richard Aldington has done just that in The Colonel's Daughter. Banned by Smith's (big distributors) in England, banned by Ireland, but reviewed even by conservative London Punch with cold respect, The Colonel's Daughter should delight U. S. Anglophobes. for this British-written book about Britain is of the kind to make even Britishers wince...
...Washington, Representatives call each other names. In Japan, deputies sometimes fight with daggers and fountain pens (TIME, Feb. 16). In France they punch each other on the nose, have been known to use a dog whip (TIME, Nov. 17 ). In Poland they hurl inkwells, kick each other's shins (TIME, March 10, 1930). But in Mexico they do not fool. As Deputy Ruiz rushed forward, one shot banged out (witnesses later swore it came from the visitors' gallery), followed immediately by a general drawing and firing of guns by Mexico's lawmakers. Manuel Ruiz died...
...intermittently successful career. When they were matched in New York City last week it was their third fight. Petrolle won the first, in Manhattan last winter, by banging his right hand into the face of a McLarnin who had come into the ring poised, apparently, for one hard punch to precede his triumphant handspring. Their next fight was less exciting; McLarnin, who had seemed heroic in his defeat, dismayed his admirers by retreating around the ring and outpointing Petrolle with a cautious left...