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...those qualities which legend has conferred upon the peers of England. Traces of an older generation survived in his speech and in his clothes,- hard grainy phrases, grandiloquent flights of formal gallantry, puffing stocks, deep collars, square top hats. He was a celebrated boxer! People said that he could knock out any man in the House of Lords. Once he sat next to Charles Parnell in a railway carriage and, for the only time in his life, permitted himself to be engaged in conversation by a man to whom he had never been introduced, thus winning fame as "the first...
...Manchester, N. H., lives an elderly policeman named John Smith. He was manager of the Norfolk Club in a Virginia minor league when Mathewson, a big boy, knock-kneed and ungainly, was starting with a team from Taunton. John Smith saw him pitch a game in Manchester and lose 6-5 and signed him for a season with the Virginia club...
...they were lawyers. They had not known about the knock-out system which British dealers use to get graft out of a sale...
Pressmen nodded sagely, though it is unlikely that many of them knew any more than Leverhulme's perplexed trustees about the knock out system. Knockout, in the ar got of the U. S. collegian, is a floating superlative used to qualify any object whose speed, efficiency or sex-appeal appalls rhetoric. In England the pressmen soon ascertained it is something else entirely...
...There "knock-out" is a kind of smart chicanery by which art dealers reap illicit gains. Instead of bidding against each other, they obtain valuable objects at insignificant cost by forming a pool and appointing a representative to bid for them. Whatever is bought in the interests of the pool is sold again to private individuals or at other auctions and the profits divided. It was an open secret among the Trade in London that the Leverhulme "knock-out" would net its participants approximately half a million dollars out of the pockets of the estate...