Word: clouts
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...whatever the cause, the result is big box office, and rightly so. For the period is admirably adapted to a combination of stealthy, seething intrigue and red-blooded action. Them was the days when you didn't clout a guy over the head with an epigram or plug him with a bullet; you killed him at the end of a fifteen minute sequence of dueling and overturned every table, chair, and candelabrum in the bargain...
...Aidan Roark, who hadn't played all winter, got tired of the monotony. The two dueled for the ball. In the melee, Charles Farrell romped by, whanged the ball between the posts for a goal. Next the producers scored, scored a second time when Roark with a tremendous clout sent the ball 100 yards to win the game for the Producers in the last second...
...Dwight Faulding ran for his. But Jack Morgan's blazed first. "Then Jack," his young wife related, "began to act just like a madman." Taking command, he forced his frightened companions into their cabins, steered south. When Elsie Berdan protested Morgan's advances, she got a clout on the head...
Significance. Poland was not expected by competent European observers last week to sign the anti-Comintern Pact, since for Polish Dictator Edward Smigly-Rydz this would be equivalent to sticking his head between the jaws of his neighbor the Russian Bear, while giving it a clout in the ribs...
Trailing the Jumbos who scored once in the first, the Varsity tied the count in the fourth inning when the singling Tom Bilodeau dashed home on Frank Owen's safe clout. The Crimson took the lead in the fifth as Colwell walked, advanced to second on Curtiss' bunt, and crossed the plate on Art Johns' line drive to left...