Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Convalescing in a Manhattan hospital from near-fatal peritonitis, popular ex-Fisticuffer William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey was snowed under by more than 2,000 telegrams, visited by Governor Herbert Henry Lehman, roundly bussed by Daughters Barbara and Rose...
...squall struck Lake Couchiching near his summer home, capsizing a canoeist, Humorist Stephen Leacock set out to the rescue in his motor launch with Caretaker Jack Kelly & Mrs. Kelly. As the launch pulled away from the dock, Mrs. Kelly fainted. Dr. Leacock put back to the dock and Mrs. Kelly came to. Once more Dr. Leacock set forth to the rescue. Once more Mrs. Kelly swooned. After putting her ashore once & for all, Humorist Leacock reached the half-drowned canoeist hauled him aboard...
...some popularity, made up Boomps-a-Daisy, donned a gown with a bustle and, with a partner, began demonstrating the dance a month ago. It was featured in London dance halls, in provincial ice shows. This week Boomps-a-Daisy went into the big time when Band Leader Jack Hylton opened a ten-week revue at London's Palladium, had an Edwardian-costumed chorus perform the dance, invited the audience to join in in the aisles. Boomps-a-Daisy goes as follows: face partner, tap hands; clap hands to knees; "with great delicacy and discretion," boomp hip against bustle...
...Jack Benny and the Jell-O troupe, NBC. Substitutes, starting this week: the Aldrich Family, a problem household recruited from the Broadway play What a Life and groomed by General Foods on Kate Smith's hour this season...
...main wings parallel to the main exhibition building and a glass and marble fagade, the proposed Gallery is without frills except for a curving pool and sculpture court beside the main entrance. Its site will be a two-block plot of ground on the Mall directly-and dramatically-opposite Jack Pope's National Gallery, now in construction-a $9,000,000 pantheon with marble wings. Cost of the functional Smithsonian Gallery of Art (which Congress has not yet appropriated...