Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...welfare of the islanders. Here Senator Moses of New Hampshire quietly remarked that, if Senator Harrison was so interested in "the little brown man of the Philippines," he might also propose an investigation into the conditions of "the little black man in Mississippi." It was a very palpable hit which Pat Harrison took with his usual good humor, and then proceeded to urge a resolution that Congress send to the Philippines its own investigation committee. The Senator who champions the dignity of Congress will always be heard willingly in the Senate. But the Ohio Senators refused unanimous consent to give...
Harvard tied the score within the next two stanzas, two base on balls, a sacrifice, and an out accounted for a run in the first, while a walk, a hit, and some weird throwing, gave the University its second tally in the following inning...
...seventh. The invaders tied it at this point with a single, an error, a sacrifice and another single. In the eighth, the Terriers preceded to put the game on ice. Two were out when Kincaide reached second on Sullivan's toss into the stands, MacDonald singled, and O'Brien hit a home run. In the ninth the Terriers added their final marker, so that Harvard's eleventh hour rally, which netted two runs, fell short of tying the count...
Leaving New York the play started on an extended tour of several of the larger eastern cities. Among other places that the company stopped at were Yale and Princeton. In both of these colleges the piece was hailed not only as an excellent hit of entertainment, but also as a true picture of life at Harvard...
Although this was her first big hit, it was only one of man. She has had nine plays produced on Broadway, among them "Naughty Marietta," "Maytime," and "Little Old New York." The same qualities of lightness, clever humor, and deft characterizations, all of which contribute most to pure entertainment, have distinguished her later plays as they did "Brown of Harvard...