Word: joes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this because the "Vanities" didn't live up to expectations and because a revue can not be mediocre, it is either very good or quite bad. Otherwise Johnny Dooley, almost always, and Joe Cook, featured, but less consistently, can wheedle laughs from their audience and furnish amusement, never hilarious. The chorus, so integral a part of every revue, must be particularly brainy. Condemn the chorus and it leaves the show scarcely a leg to stand...
...mayor of West City, Ill. The mayor, incautious, unsuspecting, opened the door. His callers took hasty shots at the 300-pound target, ran for their machines, left Mayor Adams dying across his threshold. Now the State of Illinois holds Charles Birger, gunman, gangster, as accessory to the murder of Joe Adams...
Enthusiastic thousands packed the gallery as five dogs, held worthy of supreme honor, entered the arena. There was Southport Blue Knight, gorgeous collie with flowing coat; Dapple Joe, gaunt, sleek pointer; Morningside Prince, white bull of massive jaw; Little Rajah, mincing Pomeranian; Pinegrade Perfection, waddling Sealyham with luxuriant mustache...
...TIME, Jan. 10, you. . . slur at old Joe Ransdell's whiskers. And why pick on poor little old Toombs County, Ga., when you have the whole state of Illinois right next door. Clean up your own front yard before digging in the ash can in our back yard. Get the beam out of your...
...middle-sized men-welter-weights-looking small in the big ring at Madison Square Garden, under a motionless pour of white light like metallic milk, scuffed and bobbed and perked and knuckled. One was named Joe Dundee, the other Eddie Roberts. A month ago Roberts knocked Dundee out in one round. Wise people did not think he could do it again. The betting was even. Well did little Dundee show that he deserved this confidence when, after taking a count of eight in the fourth round, he came out of his corner like a loose propeller, pounded Roberts bloody until...