Word: punching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went on to New College, Oxford, where he "took a first'' in Jurisprudence. During the War he served with the Royal Naval Division, was mentioned in despatches at Gallipoli, wounded in France. After the War he was called to the bar but never practiced, instead joined the staff of Punch (London so-called humorous weekly), whose "darling child" he has been dubbed. With Versifier Owen Seaman, Artist George Frederick Arthur Belcher, Herbert supplies what humor still persists in that otherwise respectable Tory sheet. Herbert is married, has one son, three daughters. With a quizzical expression, bright eyes, a beaked nose...
...Golden Dawn" is not piquant, it is sweet: therefore it cloys, not appetizes.* It may be all very well as a punch, or a liqueur, but never as a cocktail. The popularity of the Dry Martini places it without any doubt in the minds of the majority as the "World's Finest." Let the drinker beware of the European barman-he likes to skimp on his liquors and trust to melted ice to fill the glasses: tell him "pas trap glacé" (not too much ice) or, jocularly, "pas trap mouillé" (not too wet). GRAFTON D. DORSEY
Harvard was gallant in defeat, stronger than it had ever been in any game this year. Although outrushed, the Crimson made this up with an overwhelming superiority in the aerial game, gaining almost three times as much by passes as the Wolverines. But the visitors had a decided scoring punch which they unleashed at the proper moment and which eradicated any supremacy which Harvard might have shown up to that time...
...favorite at good odds. But Devens is lost to the backfield and Talbot and Ogden to the line. Last night it was still undetermined whether or not Mays would be allowed to enter the tilt. With Devens and possibly Mays out of the backfield most of the punch is gone and the duty to carry on falls on the shoulders of Schereschewsky and Batchelder. The former has never started in a big game while the latter is still a mysterious quantity despite an encouraging showing in the preceding games this year...
...favorite at good odds. But Devens is lost to the backfield and Talbot and Ogden to the line. Last night it was still undetermined whether or not Mays would be allowed to enter the tilt. With Devens and possibly Mays out of the backfield most of the punch is gone and the duty to carry on falls on the shoulders of Schereschewsky and Batchelder. The former has never started in a big game while the latter is still a mysterious quantity despite an encouraging showing in the preceding games this year...