Word: chucks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small boy with a bat and a batting eye who can find someone to pitch to him, will bat for hours, will cry, "Chuck us another! Watch me knock it outa the lot!" Joy is his. Among adults, the same joy is experienced by the woman at a church social whose seamstress has told her just why Mrs. Jiggetywig left her husband; or by the male dinner guest in Sedalia, Mo., who took his vacation under the auspices of Thos. Cook & Son. These, to squeeze the last drop of bliss from omniscience, will hint: "Ask me another!" Two youths lately...
Twinkletoes (Colleen Moore). In this film with an English setting, Colleen Moore, wearing a blonde wig, looks like Lillian Gish, enacts a limehouse lily as Dorothy Gish would (TIME, Nov. 8). A peppery toe-dancer, she leaps to the heart of Prizefighter Chuck Lightfoot, who is so severely jabbed that he counters by helping Twinkletoe's rascally parent (Tully Marshall) out of a counterfeit crime, and himself into the hands of the police. Then, a subtitle records the passage of a year and a happy ending. Colleen Moore entertains...
...foot putt. On the 18th green Johnston's putter again faltered. He missed a six-footer and enabled Dolp to square the match. Johnston repeated with a two-foot miss on the extra hole, was eliminated. Dolp then sailed on easily to his first Western Amateur Championship-Chuck Hunter defaulted to him; collegian Kenneth Hisert ("Big Ten" winner) was swamped; B. E. Stein of Seattle capitulated on the 31st hole of the finals. The headliners were ignored: Keefe Carter (last year's champion) was eliminated in the second round: Chick Evans (seeking his ninth Western title) fell before...
...York Daily Mirror "crusaded" against him, asking, "Why is a rich lunatic a free lunatic?" Some of the Mirror's chicle-masticating readers may have thought it a breach of taste, a blatancy, to make so much of the fact that an old rake wanted to chuck a dancing girl under the chin. Little did these readers know the courage that went into the writing of that crusade...
Married. Charles Stedman ("Chuck") Garland, 26, member of the 1920 U. S. Davis Cup tennis team, to Miss Aurelia Stoner of Sewickley, Pa.; in Sewickley...