Word: cooganing
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...However, McGraw had praised Hornsby highly on Hornsby Day in St. Louis and he had hinted at retirement "some day." McGraw is 54. It would not be surprising to see him give up baseball when his contract as Manager of the Giants expires in 1929. On that "some day" Coogan's Bluff will lose its nabob, President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University (see p. 16) will lose an old neighbor and Manhattan will lose one of its most significant Irishmen...
...last week the cadets of Urban Military Academy (Hollywood), rose as usual from dinner, began to march out. Jackie Coogan, 12, cinema boy, now a cadet, seized a pepper pot, threw pepper at one Brin of Bjorkman. For this, he was demoted from rank of corporal to private...
...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...