Word: punching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well done is Harvard Inside Out by Elmer E. Hagler '16, which appeared in 1916. The cartoons are very amateurish jobs, and the captions lack a good deal of punch. Written ostensibly by the barely literate younger brother of a Harvard undergraduate, these captions adopt an obvious vernacular which becomes more and more oppressive as each page is turned...
...punch no cows and we bank our wages But we sure ride herd on them...
...frail-looking crooner confronts a crowd of bobby-soxers. But to an English critic, the phenomenon still takes getting used to. Drama Critic J. B. Boothroyd covered the performance of U.S. Crooner Johnnie ("Cry") Ray at London's famed old Hippodrome and wrote the following clinical report im Punch...
...barbershop, in the family parlor and the public park, the British people voiced their sympathy, their shock, their approval, their disapproval, or their angry impatience at the whole affair. The circumstances were becoming familiar enough to permit a few small and very English jokes about it. In a Punch cartoon, an impressionable child thoughtfully counted the peas on her plate to the words, "Tinker, tailor, soldier, group captain." A BBC comedian asked his straight man to read the day's news. "They had tea together again," intoned the other. But back of the little jokes and the large admonitions...
...meteorological conditions, the reliability of the informant and his training. They recorded the color, brightness, speed, elevation, etc. of each "aerial object." They took account of related events, such as balloon-launchings. They noted whether the object had been seen by eye or radar. They put these details on punch cards and ran them through sorting machines to see how many sightings there were in each category...