Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...teeth, white socks, camels, and above all, what passes in the middle-class moving picture for humour. Cinema humour is atavistic; it goes back to the primeval source--cruelty. And it gets results. While Emerson and Appleby with growing displeasure watched a pitiful creature fall down stairs and get hit over the head and make grimaces, a lady (term used by courtesy) next them was overcome with paroxysms of joy. Tears made little canyons down her cheeks and spots on Mr. Hollisheimer's cuff. Finally she was reduced to a jellylike mass, from which issued increasingly faint gurgles...
...restless, hurried on to visit half a dozen East End dives. At one a sailor, elated with rum, seized Edward's not very strong right hand and pumped it for minutes-shouting "Hold on Prince!" whenever His Royal Highness tried to draw away. At last an equerry hit the fellow a shrewd tap, rescued Edward...
...tortuously inclined streets of Lisbon. The city, built like Imperial Rome on seven hills, was weathering the 18th Portuguese revolution since 1910.† Last week the struggle between the two factions of the military adventurers who now dominate Portugal became so furious that the U. S. Legation was hit by stray machine-gun fire, and U. S. Minister Fred Morris Dearing hastily decamped to the suburbs...
Judy. Beside a song hit presumptive: "When Gentlemen Grew Whiskers and Ladies Grew Old," this musical comedy has Queenie Smith, as ever a charming twinkle-toes. After an uncertain first night it picked up considerably, and is the first clean show with a Greenwich Village setting in many a year. Thin...
Certain incongruities are also to be found in the happenings of the night. There was, for instance, H. S. Barker, a Somerville drug clerk, who in attempting to transfer from a bus at the Square, before taking 10 steps, was hit on the head and piled into the wagon with the students. Baker, it is said, is "married and has two children...