Word: punching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still in search of additional scoring punch, soccer coach Bruce Munro will use a revised front line when the varsity eleven meets the undefeated Lord Jeffs at Amherst today at 2 p.m. The game, originally scheduled for Oct. 1, was postponed because of polio at Amherst...
Royal Barge. Sullivan is about the longest shot ever to have paid off in show business. It is as if Featherweight Willie Pep knocked out Rocky Marciano with a single punch in the second round. No one has any ready explanation, although many have tried. Fred Allen cracks: "Ed Sullivan will last as long as someone else has talent. He has a natural feeling for the mental level of his audience, which is subterranean." Dave Garroway argues that Sullivan is a good master of ceremonies "because he tells the facts and then gets out of the way." Even Sullivan...
Cartoonist Ronald Searle's schoolgirls are probably the most evil creatures to appear in English letters since Shakespeare's lago. Not content to be confined to the pages of Punch, the horrible little monsters have now spread like a plague all over a British motion picture. If they have lost some of their sting in the transition, the girls are still as grotesquely humorous as they every were...
...Sidney Gilliat, and Val Valentine is less successful than the actors. It does not matter very much that the plot, which centers loosely around the theft of a racehorse, is hopelessly confused. Many of the comic situations, however, are strained and too farcical to be genuinely funny, and the punch-lines of some of the jokes are left lying around so long that they finally drop out altogether. As a result, the film lacks much of the spontaneity of the Searle originals...
...group's arrival at Le Havre prepared the men for what was to follow in every city they visited; crowds of eager people, streets lined with soldiers at attention, and an official reception with "each new kind of punch more deadly than the one before...