Word: froing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles A. McCulloch is chairman of Parmalee Co., whose buses take trunks and travelers to and fro between Chicago's many railroad stations. He is largely interested in both the Chicago and New York Yellow Cabs. A onetime newsboy, he took part (in 1915) in an Old Newsboys' Day, stood on a corner with his newspapers, sold them out swiftly by the expedient of crying, falsely, facetiously, "Doubleuxtree! Charlie Ross is found!" There is a Loop story that when the late J. Ogden Armour was in a state of acute financial difficulty, Mr. McCulloch offered him a check...
...song of his own devising called "Legs, Legs, Legs." Thereafter a large and lovely group of girls attired in summery yellow dresses crowd out upon the stage, lie on their backs on an imitation grass terrace, raise their legs high in the air and wave them slowly to & fro. This revel sets the pitch for the rest of the entertainment, which fulfills every standard-anatomical, luxurious, careless-that is associated with Producer Carroll. There is even a bath-tub interlude. Prominent among the personalities is Will Mahoney, a vaudeville Celt who clogs swiftly and loudly and takes terrific tumbles which...
...army, completely mobilized, equipped with hand grenades, field artillery, machine guns and submachine guns, took the field, led by a squadron of 20 roaring battle planes. Kwantung gunboats shelled the rebels from the river. Kwantung airplanes shelled the rebels. For days the line of battle wavered to and fro- ding, dong-Kwangsi. Kwantung. The Kwantung airplanes and gunboats finally settled the scale. The attacking Kwangsis retreated with heavy losses, leaving 1,500 captives...
Last week, two months had passed since the new occupants took over the White House. Observers looking to see what changes, if any, might have come over the White House, noticed that the bronze-bound doors were swinging to and fro with a brisk new freedom. They opened not only in for strangers (see col. 1) but also out for plain tourists to issue grandly forth from the main entrance after staring their way through state chambers. The tourist exit always used to be through the basement. The Open Door policy is the most tangible change which Mrs. Hoover...
Measured by that test, this is the most successful Lampoon of them all. And perhaps, as the pendulum called progress swings slowly to and fro, there will come a time when touchiness will disappear and the Lampoon can be flerce and angry and satiric--and be regarded, nevertheless, not as a menace but as a joke