Word: punching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experience. I was dining with a very dear friend. After we got up she said, 'Oh, I feel sick. It's my stomach.' She fell on the floor. I did not know what to do. There was nobody to call. The only thing I could think of was to punch her where the chiropractor punches me. I've had stomach trouble for years, you know. Well, I punched her and punched her, and, my dear, she died in my arms...
...Bartender's Guide ("1887) carries this Philadelphia recipe for Fish House rum punch: ? pt. lemon juice; ¾ lb. white sugar dissolved in sufficient water: ½ pt. cognac; ¼ pt. peach brandy; ¼ pt. Jamaica rum; 2½ pt. cold water...
...Chicago, 18,000 people paid $59,625 to see gargantuan Primo Camera fight a French-Canadian slugnut named Elzear Rioux. Because Rioux, 63¼ Ibs. the lighter, only lasted 47 seconds, taking six knockdowns in that time and never landing a punch, the Illinois State Athletic Commission withheld the purse. The Commission felt that Rioux had been too consistently horizontal for the fight to be honest. Carnera's friends insisted he was being penalized merely because, in a profession full of chicanery, the prowess of an honest monster taxed credulity...
...Last week, Punch, ancient funny weekly, announced it would print a monthly edition for blind people, in Braille type. Drawings will be explained by word-pictures...
Edsel Ford, Board Chairman Roy Dikeman Chapin of Hudson Motor Car Co., and other Grosse Pointe, Mich, socialites (Buhls, Gardners, Geytmrns) have built a $500,000, 608-seat cinema theatre To the opening last week came Radioman Graham McNamee, Actress Elsie Ferguson, Actress Vivian Tobin. Name: "Punch & Judy Theatre," Architect: Robert 0. Derrick, who planned the Ford Museum at Dearborn. Admission on the opening night...