Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chorines to lift a mediocre revue into a summer hit. The music squeaks and the staging fumbles; but Victor Moore as an amateur elocutionist, Charles Butterworth as a terrified orator, a pair of clown esthetic dancers and the pretty chorus in a burlesque of Roxy Theatre pageants manage to boost the entertainment to the high level that theatre-goers expect of a show boasting sketches by J. P. McEvoy...
...HEAVY HITTERS BOOST AVERAGE TO HIGH FIGURE Players a.b. r. h. 2b. 3b. h.r. s.b. s.h. Ave. p.o. a. e. Ave. Molloy 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 .500 0 2 0 1.000 Chauncey 81 18 34 5 2 3 3 1 .420 115 19 5 .985 Donaghy 67 19 24 2 1 0 7 3 .358 30 35 5 .929 Burns 71 30 22 2 0 0 32 1 .310 42 1 2 .956 Lord 88 16 27 1 5 2 3 3 .307 81 3 5 .944 Chase...
Some time ago you had a Slogan contest. Now, I am going to give your magazine a boost in the following words: TIME is queer, But it has no peer...
...consistent reader and subscriber of TIME and do not overlook an opportunity to boost your paper. . . . Once or twice in the past I have noticed certain facts about automobiles that you have stated, which are not exactly in accord with my own knowledge and information. . . . For instance, in a recent issue [TIME, Jan. 24] you had quite a story regarding the New York Show, and I was greatly disappointed not to see any mention of the new Little Marmon 8 which, without question, was one of the most striking exhibits at the Show, and is today one of the most...
...well select the short story "Hatrack" (reviewed in TIME, April 19), and the novel Revelry (TIME, Nov. 29). "Hatrack," the tale of "Fanny Fewclothes," rebuffed churchgoer and sought-after prostitute of Farmington,* Mo., enabled Editor H. L. Mencken to guffaw at the New England Watch and Ward Society, to boost the circulation of the American Mercury, to have the "Hatrack" issue barred from the U. S. mails. Revelry, a flashy novel of the scandals of the Harding Administration, is bringing fortune if not fame to Writer Samuel Hopkins Adams...