Word: hit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final subscription tally will probably hit well over 400, Miss Evans stated, considering that returns have not yet come in from commuters...
...last and best productions. Harold Lloyd, the man who invented horn-rimmed glasses, lurched and fumbled his way to an improbable success in film milestones like "The Freshman," against competition from such adept funnymen as Buster Keaton and Chaplin himself. "Movie Crazy" shows what happened when sound hit the screen, and the champions of the gestured word had to adjust. Most of the time, they didn't bother...
...movie about the "mammy" singer of the twenties, with Al Jolson's voice on the sound track, was almost a sure thing from the start. But there were a few of Jolson's top numbers that couldn't be fitted in. When the film turned out to be a hit, the moviemakers couldn't resist the temptation to have Jolson sing again...
Died. Mark Warnow, 47, topflight radio orchestra leader (MARCH OF TIME, We, the People), conductor (since 1937) of 493 broadcasts of Your Hit Parade; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
Another test uses three buttons, two of one color and an odd one. This measures quickness of reaction. Birds hit the center button, and then immediately strike the matching one to win their meal...