Word: hurls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...town, 30 years ago, loud was the rejoicing in poolrooms. The Cherry Sisters were blowsy, humorless young actresses who sang sentimental ballads completely off key, in dead earnestness. They appeared behind a serviceable net that covered the stage, and it was entirely au fait for the audience to hurl apples, tomatoes, potatoes, cabbages, other ingredients of a typical New England boiled dinner, throughout the Cherry Sisters appearance. In every town that the Cherry Sisters played, it was an invariable custom for the editor of the local paper to review their act with a column and a half of humor, satire...