Word: knocked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would knock and greet the unsuspecting students with an extended money pan and a sentimental story. But they didn't get far, for after they had collected a sizeable amount and were about to make their escape, the due met a squad of Yard police who immediately escorted them out of the Yard...
...KNOCK, MURDERER, KNOCK!-Harriet Rutland-Harrison-Hilton ($2). Plenty baffled are Local Inspector Palk and a mysterious amateur sleuth when three guests in an English hydropathic hotel have their heads skewered with a steel knitting needle. Neurotic, crossgrained, gossipy characters are the tale's specialty...
...than to any U. S. humor. In some of them Eliot goes kittenish in a big way, recalling that suspect, sissified element in Lear and Carroll which sets U. S. teeth on edge. Yet latent in other of Possum's poems is enough ferocious fancy and parody to knock the spots off most cat books and most child verses...
...Puritans won their game on a blocked punt, the fourth time that they have gained victory this way. Joe Peden broke through the Deacon line in the third quarter to knock down a punt and Ham Daughaday proceeded to fall on the ball on the eight-yard line. From there George Dreher carried it over...
...blocked punt was the cause of the second score, when Gordy Day broke through the Rambler line to knock down Jack Bronston's kick on the Dorm goal line. Hank Burgess fell on the ball for the score and Ed Edmunds made the extra point on an off-tackle slant...