Word: punching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this uproarious memoir Cordelia Drexel Biddle (now Mrs. T. Markoe Robertson) serves up a Philadelphia pepper pot of stories about the Main Line's celebrated Biddies. Most of the book is about her father. Colonel Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, a punch-and-judo-throwing millionaire who led fully as strenuous a life as his good friend Teddy Roosevelt. As an amateur boxer, the bald, spike-mustached aristocrat fought under the name of "Tim O'Biddle." The great Ruby Bob Fitzsimmons called him one of the best amateur fighters he ever saw. In 1908 he went four roughhouse rounds...
...however, somewhat covered by numerous biting lines that can add considerable sharpness to the action between songs, and the cast is quick to find the comedy in many of them. Yet others are lost because, as in the first act, the dialogue has been paced too rapidly and the punch line is buried under the heavy dirgue of the following speech. If Director Richard Smithies had applied his talent in developing the humor with the same adroitness he exhibited in the remainder of The Gondoliers, the evening would have had an even brighter lilt...
Then Chou delivered his punch line...
...Navy infield supplies most of the punch in the lineup, with three men hitting over .400. Second baseman Bill Purcotte leads the team with the startling figure of .485. Third sacker Wilson Spangler is next at .452, followed by shortstop Larry Manger at .424, and first baseman Phil Monahan at .864. The eight Navy regulars have a combined batting average...
...Detroit, Chrysler has placed thousands of physically handicapped workers in good jobs since 1943, thoroughly tests each applicant for what he can do, then finds a job to fit. General Motors has the same type of system at its Dayton, Ohio Frigidaire plant. For example, an ex-punch-press operator who got tuberculosis of the spine checks for leaks in refrigerator units passing through a tank of water, a job that does not require him to stoop or twist...