Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Just Simply Because." Though the Laborites seemed scarcely to have hit their electioneering stride, there was one piquant bit of news concerning a potent Laborite M. P., soon perhaps to become a Cabinet Minister, who was knifed in his political back, last week, by his pretty daughter. He, Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby, was Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the Ramsay MacDonald Cabinet (1924) and has recently penned an able expose of War lies (TIME, Jan. 21). His faithless daughter. Miss Elizabeth Ponsonby, chirped last week, to a newswoman, "I'm going to vote...
...which 1) a night-club entertainer, getting a telegram telling of his mother's illness, sings a song entitled "My Mother's Eyes"; 2) a girl is saved from embarrassment in a matter concerning a jewel not given her by her husband; 3) the entertainer makes a hit on Broadway. Better advised on technique than narrative, Tiffany-Stahl, a comparatively small independent company, has overcome difficulties of sound-production which richer producers are still combating with less success...
...still Peter seethed with activity. He strained and strained trying to think of something to do in which you got a long way but didn't have to give up anything to get there. Finally he hit upon it,--he would become a social lion and an activities man. That was the combination. You spent your days with the best men, and in the evening you strutted your wares before the pride of the city's society...
Does the Harvard Lampoon hit too hard, or are academic communities abnormally thin-skinned? At royal courts the function of the king's fool was to rush in where statesmen feared to tread. It was recognized as one needful to the safety of monarchy itself. The true word spoken in jest might be the salvation of the throne. Shall opinion in a modern university be more autocratic than monarchy, and revoke the jester's license...
...Wendell Bat. Both these trophies are awarded annually. The former is given to the best all-around player on the team. The Wendell Bat is awarded on the basis of a point system. One point is credited to a player for every safe arrival at first base, sacrifice hit, and stolen base, and for every run scored...