Word: punching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...protocol permitting, a six-year-old American boy named Stephen Rutter will be excused from his private school on London's fashionable Eaton Square long enough to go to Buckingham Palace and obey, by approximation, an admonition of the late Mayor Big Bill Thompson of Chicago, to wit: "Punch King George in the snoot." The target will be George V's great grandson, Prince Charles, heir to the throne of Britain. Stephen, the son of a second secretary of the U.S. embassy, was picked last week to be a sparring partner for five-year-old Prince Charles...
...that he is worth getting. Although this is Andrews' fifth western, he still jumps when the gun goes off, and he obviously hates to punch almost as much as he hates to be punched...
Defending House football champion Leverett was unable to find its scoring punch yesterday afternoon and barely managed to defeat a surprisingly strong Eliot eleven 7 to 0. Dunster edge Kirkland, 7 to 6, in another opening contest...
Humor, and especially Benchley's humor, has no commonly accepted high point. The preamble can be as funny as the punch line, if there is any, and each story is up to the individual. If the individual likes it snide, he can have it; if he likes it zany, it's here. Long, short, tall, reserved, stupid, odd, out-of-place, out-of-taste, all of them are here--almost ninety of them...
...show of Wiinblad's work last week transformed the third floor of Georg Jensen Inc., the Manhattan emporium of Scandinavian good taste, into a strange place, half fairyland and half Punch cartoon. Puckish faces were everywhere, and they bore a remarkable resemblance to the artist-bright-eyed, point-nosed, with an expression of gaiety rampant. The show included chummy centaurs bearing candles, chubby wood nymphs lurking in the shrubbery, birds that never were, sinuous but homey maidens, and friendly eggheads sprouting flowers. One Stolen Nymph, her navel flower-decked, sat sidesaddle aboard a centaur, who was chiefly interested...