Word: hit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...called together so many people and had cost less. Mr. Norman's book carries on the questionable side of the Harvard play into something very like pretentiousness and advertisement. The photographs of the performers are quite as ridiculous as those of the ordinary amateur who has made a "hit" in private theatricals, and, what is worse, these young men have been posed with all the horrible skill, the exquisite bad taste, of a fashionable photographer...
...Harry Dixey, formerly of the "Surprise" party, recently made a great hit in Philadelphia as Bunthorne in "Patience...
...idea of my being sent on such a wild goose chase! - As if I knew anything about maids! They might as well have told me to hire a howling dervish. Just as I was going off for a day's sport, too! I think mother might have hit on some other time to get sick. Some people are confoundedly inconsiderate, any way. [Notices screen.] Holloa! they cage the animals, do they? [Peeks through blind.] By Jove, there's one of 'em now, I do believe. Wish the old antique downstairs would brace, so I could have the thing through with...
...last number of the Nassau Lit. is quite entertaining. We think the writer of "Sensationalism in College Life" has "hit the nail on the head." We wish some of our friends would take the article to heart. "The Honest Italian Laborer" is a cleverly written sketch. We judge from the following that the Faculty has interfered with tennis at Princeton...
...Nine, to make a three base hit...