Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Radiano". Inventors Fred W. Roehm and Frank W. Adsit of Minneapolis announced the perfection of a device to "revolutionize" the piano business, hard hit lately by radio and phonograph competition. The device was the "radiano", attachable to the sounding board of any piano, and with modifications to violins, banjos, mandolins, to replace the microphone of a radio receiving set. Connected through the "radiano" with a radio's amplifier circuit, the piano or stringed instrument's sounding board would act, it was claimed, as a loud speaker, reproducing broadcasted piano tones with a clarity unattained hitherto; reproducing also...
...soon to be President, who looked inscrutably at the dying man out of his fishy eyes and assured him that the Markham policies would be faithfully adhered to. Vice President Elliot did not know what the Markham policies were. Nor did Markham. Nor anyone else. But it made a hit when sent out over the news association wires...
...Whispering Gallery". Add to the list of apologizing publishers the so-date John Lane and Company. It has been a busy week-end with the famous London house. Its latest offering, a chatty biting, indiscreet book called, with due propriety, "The Whispering Gallery" was hailed as the seasons hit in England. Everyone who mattered was reading it because it contained delightfully brutal comments on everyone else who mattered. The throbbing question then arose--who wrote it? John Lane and Company announced that only one person knew--the director of the firm, and that he was, of course, bound to secrecy...
...hundred thousand dollars worth of mementos she collected, none were more valuable to her than the personal effects willed to her by Sitting Bull, famed Sioux chief, who named her "Watanic Cicilia" (Little Sureshot). She could hit pennies tossed in the air or larger discs (in the centre or on the edge as requested) ; shoot holes in playing cards or tickets fluttering in the air; stand on one foot, throw three eggs aloft, hit each with her rifle before it squashed...
...these, much touted songs, the hit of the show, taking it for granted that the producers will force Fair Lady down the threat of Broadway, will probably be "It," a very clever adaptation of Elinor Glyn's article on sex appeal. Has she got it? Then she doesn't need good clothes, good looks or even a good name. She's there Miss Mildred Parishette, the heroine of the show, just hasn't got IT. In riding breeches, she almost captures IT, but when she appears as Margarite, she looks like a debutante at the end of a hard winter...