Word: hit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impartial observer must first look behind the catchwords of war propagandists. In the World War these men, reaching the peak of their inventiveness, hit upon the phrase, "war to end war." Judging by the quality of the slogans, the present conflict cannot yet equal the holiness of the last one. But still, the parallel between now and the days of 1914-1917 is close. Then too, leaders of church and university such as President Eliot of Harvard and Bishop Manning, boldly backed Britain and France. America thought after the war that this would never happen again, but the familiar utterances...
...plot with occasional time-outs to show off a very nice voice. C. Aubrey Smith crashes through again as one of the better parts of the supporting cast. There are also a couple of Katzenjammer Kids who might, with only a small stretch of the imagination, be considered the hit of the show...
...seems to know, just "Outward Bound." Passengers gather in the bar and try to figure it all out. By the third act the ship has reached its destination, and they all know. With this fantastic idea as a frame-work, Sutton Vane wrote a play that hit the jack-pot on Broadway a decade or so ago. Recently William A. Brady has revived the play and it has hit the jack-pot again...
...three years after he hit Greeley, Buzz was an enterprising nobody. Then in 1934 he tied up with Greeley's KFKA, a radio station in somewhat the same situation. He caught ranchers at breakfast daily in seven States with three-quarters of an hour of weather, livestock & feed prices, good humor, a singing cowboy and a guitar-twanging cowgirl with Bar X names (Claude Redman, Esther Gibson), plenty of come-ons for the Greeley Cash Auction Market. He put his auction pit on the air twice a week, took microphones out on the range for farm sales...
Serious, handsome Jay C. got Professional Songwriter Harry Harris (collaborator in the current hit: Baby Me), told him what he wanted. Last week he had it: a baleful ditty, words and music by Harris, fervent approval by pop-eyed Songster Eddie Cantor, title by Hormel...