Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years ago, a 29-year-old member of Lawyer Hall's staff named Jack Irwin successfully prosecuted two Los Angeles doctors for violation of Federal antinarcotic legislation. The doctors were convicted. Their lawyer, R. Dean Warner, was cited for contempt of court. Dean Warner is a member of the Los Angeles firm of McAdoo, Neblett & Warner, whose senior partner is California's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo. Last week, Attorney Hall claimed that his ousting as U. S. District Attorney had been prompted by Senator McAdoo's political pique. He said that at the time...
Object of lawn bowling is to throw the bowl, which is weighted on one end to make it lopsided, down a green 120 ft. long to land as close as possible to a previously thrown white ball or "jack." Major tournament play is between teams consisting of four men-lead, second, third, and skip (captain)-each of whom throws two bowls. An opponent's bowl may be knocked away from the jack or a teammate's may be knocked closer. When all the bowls are played and an "end" is completed, it is scored like horseshoes, the closest...
...this year's series caused the more irreverent members of the daily sporting press to surpass themselves in humorous abuse at the loser's expense. In the opinion of Joe Williams of the New York World-Telegram: "Sopwith is a palooka back of the wheel." "Sopwith," observed Jack Miley in the New York Daily News, "is now only three challenges and a goatee behind the late Sir Thomas Lipton...
Artists & Models (Paramount) begins with the Yacht Club Boys hysterically assembling a musical comedy production number for Chairman Mac Brewster (Jack Benny) of the Artists & Models Ball. That Chairman Brewster's terse comment, "It stinks," does not describe the haphazard entertainment that follows is mainly owing to the scenes which Jack Benny relieves with his deprecating brand of drollery. Otherwise Artists & Models, with Director Raoul Walsh struggling to wedge into it enough people and music for three shows, would have difficulty adding...
...scene in which Jack Benny out-gabs such topflight illustrators as McClelland Barclay, Peter Arno, Arthur William Brown and John LaGatta before getting back as good as he gives from wry Rube Goldberg...