Word: punching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Impish Alan Patrick Herbert, top-notch Punch humorist and jackanapes No. 1 of the House of Commons, bolted early breakfast one morning last week, hustled over to reach Westminster at 8 a.m. wearing an expectant grin. Other M. P.s, equally eager to squeeze into their House, which is much too small to seat all of them, were already jampacked around the door. They half-hoped that Leslie Hore-Belisha, recently ousted British War Secretary (TIME, Jan. 15), would clash with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in the first really hot House of Commons debate since outbreak...
Like kippers, like cricket, like Punch, the annual feasts of the Lord Mayor of London are an established British institution. At them highly placed British officials are traditionally supposed to say something very important. Last week Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain made the two-mile journey across London from Downing Street to the financial district and, in the spacious Egyptian Hall of Mansion House, addressed "my Lord Mayor" and his 600 guests. The Prime Minister did not talk about the war; he talked all around the war, making an amiable goodwill tour among those whom Great Britain wants to have...
...years ago its treasurer absconded, leaving it with 16? in the bank. Still intact, however, are the club's fine library, its tankard-lined rathskeller, its walls tiled with paintings and prints. Still going strong is the club's annual Christmas party, a festival of Fish-house punch, cold turkey and song...
Haas-Kehler, over six feet, weighed 185 pounds. "We dubbed him Killer Kehler," said Henry Dunn, boxing promoter who knew him when he was fighting in Montreal last spring, "because of his wicked punch...