Word: tapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Chico and Harpo were playing pianos, Groucho was developing his soprano voice. Confirmed in the Jewish faith at 13, he became a choir boy in a Manhattan Episcopal Church, quit when punished for puncturing the organ bellows with an alto's hatpin. He learned to tap dance. His mother persuaded her friend Ned Wayburn to get him a job in a Gus Edwards act (where famed Eddie Cantor, George Jessel, Georgie. Price. Walter Winchell received their histrionic training). When Groucho was 14, he went to Denver to be boy soprano in a trio. Soon after he arrived...
Interrupting Muddler Thomas at this point by a tap upon the knee, Muddler Baldwin interjected, "We were never in that crowd...
Died. Charles ("Vannie") Higgins, 34, leading Brooklyn racketeer; shot to death while returning with his family from a tap & strut dancing exhibition by his 7-year-old daughter; in Brooklyn. Mrs. Higgins said her husband had been fired upon by two gangster-laden sedans but police believed he had stopped to chat with two friends who suddenly opened fire. Questioned by Police Lieutenant McGowan, Racketeer Higgins replied: "Don't bother me, Mac. I'm sick." Just before he died he mumbled: "I've got to live. .. . Gotta straighten this out. . . . They tried to wipe out my whole...
Such strange occurrences Author Ford interlards with strange theories of his own. He argues that such happenings are evidence of powers that, like atomic energy, mankind has yet to discipline and tap. He does not take his theories too seriously, does not take most "scientific" theories seriously at all. But he does not attack them as absolute nonsense, because he can ''conceive of no theory that is more than partly nonsensical." Even he must draw a "scientific" line somewhere. As reported in the New York World, in 1908, a party of detectives detailed to investigate a series...
...know it or not?the name of Junkers. It may be on the radiator in your hotel room; on the locomotive of your train (it may have been in the engine room of the steamer which took you there); under the hood of your motorbus; on the hot water tap in your bathroom. If you travel by airline anywhere in Europe the odds are 2-to-1 that the name of Junkers is on your plane. Last week the Junkers name was in world-wide headlines. The Junkers Aircraft Company was on the verge of receivership...