Word: hit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Councilmen rose, started to worm their way out through the crowd. A woman called Mr. Walmsley a dirty name. A man clouted him in the stomach. He hit back. A free-for-all fight started. One councilman was knocked almost unconscious by a blow on the neck. The crowd became a mob. Into the affray waded Police Captain Henry Melson, unpopular with the strikers for his "rough stuff." Up went the cry: "Get Melson!'' He was "gotten"- crushed to the floor, kicked, cuffed, pounded, pummeled. He drew his gun, fired shots along the floor, hit two legs...
...were lavished upon chorus girls in the age of gallantry. To old codgers in club windows she leaves the memory of how she first starred in Pearl of Peking (1889). Her business is "the laugh business," which she studies seriously. Her last success before this one was Lavinia in Hit the Deck. Her home is in Hollywood, where she has learned to apply her grease paint with water, to like "being alone with a good book...
...Here I am at camp after visiting Oxford," wrote Scout John Fridolin Streiff to his parents. "After two months of drought we brought the rain, and how! . . . Yesterday, just as we went to parade past the Review Stand a storm hit us. Wet? We got soaked. The Duke of Connaught reviewed us. Boloney! Day before yesterday I was in the India Corps for lunch. Boiled brown rice from India. Boiled in olive oil Indian style. Good...
...company hit last week was Airvia Transportation Co., which is just getting its wing-hold commercially. U. S. postal inspectors swooped into its Manhattan offices, ordered officers and employes to bring their account books to a Federal grand jury for study. Other inspectors did the same at Coastal Airways office, because of that line's pending merger with Airvia. Still other inspectors visited Hadley & Co., investment security sellers. Federal warrants were issued for the arrest of one Austin Howard Montgomery (alias Arthur Montgomery, alias Monte Griffo, onetime convict) and Gerald Tiffany (alias Harry Taylor). Trans-Atlantic Flyers Roger Quincy...
...cheek, moreover, was a literal translation of Feuchtwanger. Hoaxes will out. Said Author Feucht wanger, dehoaxed: "If these poems, to some extent, are an attempt to put Babbitt into lyrics, I certainly do not claim to be representative of America, a country I do not know. I wanted to hit at the European bourgeois, who [is becoming] . . . more 'American' than most inhabitants of the United States. ... Mr. B. W. Smith is less 'Homo Americanus' than 'Homo Americanisatus.' " Excerpt from Author Feuchtwanger's pasquinade...