Word: socked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advantage. Instead, he reaped _the whirlwind. While the small (38,494) Yankee Stadium crowd was still oohing in amazement, Louis bounced off the ropes and went to work. Tami went down under a barrage of lefts and rights, got up at the count of nine, landed one more solid sock, took half a dozen in return. Then he slid slowly down the rópes and assumed the inelegant position of 20 Louis challengers before...
...satiric glitter. The gypsy heroine who aches to be a lady (Helena Bliss) soon has all the more eligible tenors in the cast at her feet-but returns in the end to Sandor, her rough gypsy mate. For though Sandor may lack pelf and polish, he has the sock tune in the show, that great old Victor Herbert chestnut, Gypsy Love Song...
There are a few really good but long lost Johnny Dodds renditions on Paramount which have just been figs, the Century company. They include "Weary Way Blues" and "Sock That Thing" by the Dixieland Tub Thumpers. Those who fall into the class of D-L thumpers according to Hot Discography are Dodds, N. Dominique, J. Blythe and an unknown virtuoso on the washboard. The Century Company has also reissued a trombone solo by the Rogers under the biological title, "It Hurts So Good." They enclose free with every C.O.D. order a cheery letter promising to reissue a Jelly Roll Morton...
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, World War I's slick slacker, lashed himself into an offensive fury. The butler on his Downington (Pa.) estate told police all about it: when he demanded $150 in back pay, fat, 52-year-old Bergdoll gave him a quick sock in the head, then grabbed a shotgun. "I'll shoot you down like a dog," said Bergdoll. Wife Berta Bergdoll stepped in, ruled out a shooting war, let it go to law. The butler's charge: assault & battery and pointing of firearms...
Promoter Mike Jacobs, who had a big reputation for knowing just how much to sock the public, counted up his $1,925,565 gate, and his estimated $163,000 profit...