Word: hit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first of these conditions will mean the loss of the gift--a quarter of the entire sum needed. It is not enough that the friends of Harvard discharge their responsibility eventually They must discharge it quickly, or become members of that unfortunate class, the pinch-hitters who failed to hit...
WITH his Harper Prize Novel, "The Grandmothers," Glenway Wescott sprang into literary prominence. With the remains of that impetus he now gives us a collection of short stories. Some of them were written before the prize novel, some after. At all events, they somehow, fail to hit the mark. The opening tale, from which the collection draws its name, is an intimation of a desire of the author's to get away from the middle western background and attitude which featured his novel. In the future he will seek new fields to exploit and will let alone the Middle West...
Grace Hay's record has arrived. I MUST HAVE THAT MAN and I CAN'T GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE are the numbers. A warmer, sweeter voice than Helen Kane, and more subtile. A really big hit...
Boston says "she's our weakness now" but Paramount's "friskiest, fastest" comedy fails to hit the high spots promised by it. Clara Bow is a nice little girl out of her element as a hostess in a dance hall, and it seems that she is misunderstood. After the local swains have attempted to discover the talent hidden behind a demure exterior; it finally turns out that the right party happens along, and after the usual expected and unexpected misunderstandings and controversies, the show...
...Holbrook '30, and T. G. Moore '29, all capable and mostly experienced material Graves has been doing particularly well so far this fall. He is a short stocky back with plenty of speed and fight, the type that makes a yard or so after he has been hit from all sides. He needs experience but otherwise should make trouble for opposing linemen this fall. Holbrook was among the most promising of last year's new material but an injury to his knee kept him out of active work most all season...