Word: hit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...release of 1910, entitled "The Charmer." This record, a best seller in its day, was a xylophone solo, and the belles of the season all dropped their cherished copies of "Oh Mr. Dream Man--Please Let Me Dream Some More" and rushed in to buy the new hit...
...inflated, small-size basketball, indoor polo players will hereafter play with a new ball, 4½ in. thick like the old one, but of a sponge rubber composition, leather-covered with only one seam and without the lacings that made the old ball swerve crazily when you hit a long drive. The association also decided that although no indoor polo player has ever been good enough to have a ten-goal handicap, Winston Guest was too good to have anything less...
...Atlantic City, Patrolman Clifton Mann fired three shots at an injured dog. The first hit the right leg of one Clarence Beckett, railroad watchman. The second hit the dog, failed to kill it. The third hit the right leg of one Paul Robbins, coal and ice merchant. A motorcycle policeman arrived, shot...
...timing and interference of the University team was also off-color. The runner was stopped time and again when his interferers failed to clear out in front of him and piled up when they hit the Indian defenses...
...latest story going the rounds about the Army game--barring the rather absurd charge about the game being two minutes too long--is about the Bowman-Gilligan collision, in which the former was knocked-out completely for an hour or so, being hit on a more vulnerable spot on his cranium than was Gilligan, who recovered in a minute or so. Just before swooning the plucky Cadet signal-caller is alleged to have said "Leave us sit down a minute, Tommy." We will not go bail for its absolute authenticity, but it is a nice little addition to the saga...