Word: hit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Asked which was now the smartest Paris night club, Editor Gwynne said: "Still the Blue Room - unquestionably! . . . The great hit of the Paris stage this year is Paul Bourget's Vient de Paraître. He has very cleverly dramatized the popular idea that nearly all the great French literary prizes are won through pull with. the judges...
...device bring a loud speaker and two pairs of headphones. Thereafter the subscriber may listen, every night and two afternoons a week, to whatever may be sung at the Opera, or played in such famed theatres as the Odeon or Comedie Française. Already half a dozen hit-show theatres supplement this list; and Le Théatrophone seems to have definitely caught on. One typically French restriction is imposed. The subscriber may not switch from one performance to another while the first performance continues. Having chosen his play, he must listen to it or nothing. Operated...
...costume factory, she sings for the other girls at lunch, sings at the annual picnic, sings for the famed theatrical producer when he sends for her. Her singing and acting under Archie Mayo's directing make a trite story new and interesting, and give Warner Brothers a hit almost as potent as The Singing Fool...
From London, John Steele cabled the Chicago Tribune that Mr. Tunney was suffering from delusions of persecution, that he turned on a young man in the Strand, shook his cane, and said: "Look here, young man, if you are following me I am just about likely to hit you over the head with this stick...
...play together again. We were happy together until Aug. 19. We were at the home of friends and they brought out the bridge table. Mr. Wood doubled a one no trump bid and I, disgusted with a bust hand, forgot to take him out of it. Again he hit me and we have been separated ever since...