Mag, consider this a proper knockdown to P. Gubb, my boss.
"Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective"
Ellis Parker Butler
Souls have in them a wonderful capacity for recovering after knockdown blows.
"The Girl Wanted"
Nixon Waterman
But not to accuse Mr. Packard of cowardice, I will say, that instead of boldly meeting me as his antagonist on the arena of argument and discussion, and there openly defending himself against my knockdown arguments, with his Cudgel of Insanity, I find he closed off such discussions with his secret "confidential" letters to my relatives and dear friends, saying, that he had sad reason to fear his wife's mind was getting out of order; she was becoming insane on the subject of woman's rights; "but be sure to keep this fact a profound secret-especially, never let Elizabeth hear that I ever intimated such a thing."
"Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity"
Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard