Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must earn his passage. Slowly, infinitely slowly, the bows curve in. Too much rudder or a shot the wrong way, for it is impossible to see, means ruin. But he knows his boat and can tell from the feel what is happening. At last there is a slight jolt and the cox ahead rises his hand. But it is a tremendous relief to all when "easy all' follows the bump and one place higher on the river has been reached in safety...
...There Cotton is King; white men are colonels; lazy colored men lie on their backs and croon "Massa's in de col', col' groun'" up at a beautiful orange moon; and colored mammies are kissing babies & making pancakes. That conception received last week a rude jolt from Dr. Julius Klein, able chief of the U. S. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. At Memphis, Mr. Klein delivered an address, declared that: 1) manufacture exceeds agriculture in the South; 2) unlike the dear, dead days when King Cotton was courted by foreign buyers, the South now campaigns...
...Leopold story is old. It has been told. It isn't news any more. Don't worry. There'll be a new murder next week. SHIEK SLAYS SLAVE TOT. Throw a jolt into...
...Carrillo in this play, now re-revived by Producer Murray Phillips, in which the hero, as head and heart of a modiste business, breaks a volume of English dialogue over an Italian tongue. After the old-fashioned pattern of all such plots, Lombardi must experience business failure and heart-jolt before he awakens to the fact that it is not the dazzling beauty of Phyllis Manning that he loves but the demure companionship of Norah Blake. A fashion show helps the entertainment, as does the popular admission charge. But most of the fun is supplied by Actor Carrillo himself...
...challenge" revival. "HellCat" confesses publicly. The half-baked atheism of "Hell-Cat's" only friend and roommate, Jim Lefferts, is no match for raw afflatus. Unwittingly the atheist supplies all that the convert needs for his "Call" and ordination. The Holy Spirit enters Elmer Gantry, in a timely jolt of Bourbon...