Word: punching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Geordie. The stiffest comic punch the British have delivered since High and Dry-an intoxicating mixture of Scotch and wry; with Bill Travers, Alastair Sim (TIME...
Vellucci claimed that Planning Coordinator John W. Teele '27 and the Administration were not "sincere" when they promised to "tackle the parking problem" and then "beat Cambridge to the punch by buying land secretly for other purposes." The Councilor was referring to the projected sale of the lot behind the Fly Club to the University for a "new building...
...ducktailed coiffure. The blow made Elvis real mad. Side burns bristling, he rolled out of the car and rocked the manager with a looping right to the eye. Then a station attendant, a real big guy, moved in to square off with Presley. But Elvis threw a Sunday punch that grazed the bruiser's puss. A cop then enforced an armistice. Next day a judge, in a courtroom twittering with Presley's bobby-sox worshippers (several with babes in arms), decided that the gas-station pair were the aggressors, socked them with fines totaling $40. Cheers rocked...
...doctor's waiting room in rural England is taking the place once occupied by the vicarage, says British Journalist Ronald Duncan in Punch. "As any doctor will now confirm, at least 20% of his patients are not suffering from any physical ailment whatever. These people go regularly to the doctor on any excuse, but the reason for their attendance in the congregation within the waiting room is that they are seeking from the doctor the sort of spiritual comfort and personal guidance which, a few generations ago, they used to obtain from the priest...
When he was 18, Bertie was sent off on a royal tour of Canada and the U.S. Astonishingly, the subdued princeling blossomed under the round of levees and balls. When he returned to Britain, Punch gleefully cartooned him puffing a cigar and swigging drinks with an aplomb that amazed and disconcerted his austere father...