Word: cooganing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cooganing." Charles Spencer Chaplin made Jackie Coogan by co-starring him in The Kid. Therein Jackie ran ahead throwing stones through windows. Charlie followed as a glazier, repaired the windows, reaped comedy pelf. Last week The Kid was shown at the millenium-old Hartz Mountain village of Wernigerode, seat of an academy for hochgeboren young ladies. The young ladies were not allowed to see The Kid, but soon their windows tinkled in fragments as did many another. No glazier appeared, but subsequently one Thanhauser Rothschild, insignificant insurance agent, was arrested and confessed to "Cooganing" the windows after viewing...
...York and Philadelphia bluebloods. Most advertising managers forget that the majority of Americans are neither watchmen nor bluebloods; one astute man did not. Last week appeared an advertisement captioned "Everyday Folks and Their Breakfasts." It pointed out the peculiar delicacies of puffed wheat beneath the porttrait of J. P. Coogan (Jackie's grandfather), a New York Central station master...
...Clothes. Jackie Coogan is still one of the greatest of actors, but his stories are getting just a trifle tiresome. This latest, perilously parallel to The Rag Man, shows him as a boy business man and a lover's confidant. Yet any picture with Jackie Coogan is good entertainment, provided it moves...
...alleged joke written out upon it by such folk as Governor Brewster of Maine, Governor Fuller of Massachusetts, Mayor Curley of Boston, Mayor Hylan of New York, Colyumnist Don Marquis, Naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton, Actor Charles Winninger, Mrs. Charles Winninger (stage name: Blanche Ring), Publicist Bruce Barton, Jackie Coogan. The collection was entitled A Log of Laughter, One Laugh A Day. Provided they do not get stranded in the North, MacMillan and friends can count upon one loud laugh per day until the return. Specimen joke: "A Jew was solving a crossword puzzle. He said to his family: 'Give...
Born. To Jackie Coogan, famed cinemischief, a baby brother, Robert Anthony Coogan (eight pounds); in Hollywood...