Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Allez-Oop is the cry form clever comedians and lively chorines to lift a mediocre revue into a summer hit. The music squeaks and the staging fumbles; but Victor Moore as an amateur elocutionist, Charles Butterworth as a terrified orator, a pair of clown esthetic dancers and the pretty chorus in a burlesque of Roxy Theatre pageants manage to boost the entertainment to the high level that theatre-goers expect of a show boasting sketches by J. P. McEvoy...
...first heat Baby Water Car of Detroit turned over. In the second Imp of New York hit a buoy. Hotsy Totsy of New York took fire. Greenwich Folly had to average only 48 miles per hour for three 30-mile heats...
...Business Hit. The Chinese regime at Nanking which dominates the chief part of China, Shanghai, suddenly increased all tariffs and port dues last week to an extent which local U. S. merchants and shippers declared would prove "ruinous." Members of the U. S. colony at Shanghai transmitted through the local consul a protest and appeal to President Coolidge. Observers thought that the Nanking War Lord, Chiang Kaishek, was suffering reverses in his campaign to take Peking (TIME, March 28, et seq.) and had adopted the desperate expedient of raising all port taxes to increase his failing revenue...
Some thought Sharkey hit oftenest. Others said Dempsey hit hardest and forced the fight. Sharkey seemed the livelier, Dempsey the stronger, when, in the seventh round, something happened about which cigar stores and drawing-rooms, blind pigs and boudoirs, will never need to stop wrangling...
...solar plexus punch he grunted. Before the solar plexus blow was delivered and after the right landed on Sharkey's left leg, I was stepping in toward the men, saying: 'Watch your punches, Jack.' Then, realizing there were two Jacks, I said: 'I mean you, Dempsey.' Then Dempsey hit the solar plexus blow. Sharkey dropped his right hand and Dempsey hit, him a left...