Word: punching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS (Tory M.P. for Devizes 1945-55) Punch London...
...Crimson, seeking their nineteenth victory of the season, will rate as slight favorites in today's game. They have shown considerable scoring punch all season, and in their last two games have outscored their opponents...
...peopled by young, handsome, slender performers. But their Juilliard-type excellence somehow did not thrill. Baritone Theodor Uppman tried hardest and succeeded best as Papageno, the comical birdman; partly thanks to Ruth and Thomas Martin's competent translation, he put across his role with almost Broadway-like punch. Soprano Lucine Amara (Pamina) sang beautifully, and Roberta Peters (Queen of the Night) did her bell-like best despite a cold. But Tenor Brian Sullivan (Tamino) was dry-voiced and stiff-backed; Basso Jerome Hines, while he hit all of Sarastro's low notes, failed to be really moving...
Filing into Manhattan's Loew's State Theater, some 800 stockholders booed and jeered, stamped their feet, shouted raucous questions. Cried one stockholder: "Come out punching. Let the best man win." At that stockhofders started to punch, wanted to know why Loew's was not doing more in TV, why M-G-M had turned out so few moneymaking pictures recently. Charged an ex-Loew's accounting clerk, brandishing a sheaf of papers: in the last 18 months M-G-M had produced 52 pictures, but only three made money, "and I got all the records...
...whole world, but in victory lost (or mislaid) the custodian of its own soul-the middle class. Historians of this civil-war-by-attrition have necessarily come from the ranks of the defeated; one of the most skilled and disenchanted of these is a dry-styled novelist and critic (Punch) named Anthony Powell...