Word: hit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...means only one thing and that is a smart, scheming, successful harlot. Mae West, buxom actress, is chiefly responsible for making this meaning a household word. Her play, Diamond Lil, in which she performs the leading role of a dive-keeper's mistress, has been a smash-hit on Broadway since early spring...
Near Forchheim, Germany, a pilot and two passengers were killed when the great Lufthansa's regular Erfurt-Munich plane hit the earth...
Despite one-sided golf, the tournament entertained with extra curricula features. George Von Elm, of the U. S. squad, hooked a ball into the rough, came up to it, began to address the ball, was about to hit it when from the underbrush wriggled a snake. It disappeared...
...FRONT PAGE. The new season's first hit-a press room piece, full of sound and flurry (TIME...
Long before the first golden-rod grows bright in far away fields, the yellow lights of the new season are raised above Broadway. By September, usually, the first hit has arrived in town; the streets off Times Square are crammed with stage folk who hope this winter not to play Des Moines; the dramatic critics, yellow and sick from uncustomary contact with the sun, are once more being kittenish on the keys. At the centre of all this glittering activity are the producers; it depends upon them whether the new year shall be tawdry or delightful...