Word: whack
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...line with their dictation." The chief significance of this remark lies, of course, in his reference; to Chicago as "this neck of the woods." The spirit of the new outfit is most commendable. "We're going to out some stards into the backbone of the individual, and take a whack at the dictatorship of its political blue-noses." There's the general's gauntlet, and "fifty serious-minded men with yeast in their systems" back up his challenge...
...said "let's not be content with the average performance. Let's not aim to compete with the Mask and Wig and the Triangle--not just yet. But let's entertain. Let's not try to imitate a Shubert revue. Let's jimmy up a show, give everybody a whack at it, get a competent coach, do what he says, and have an awful lot of fun doing it." The proof of the Pudding was the eating last night. It was a little more savory, a great deal smoother, and it contained a great deal more nourishment than the usual...
...again by full page close-ups of the interior of the Lampoon building. But this is, after all, only what is to be expected in a Christmas number, and there are frequent flashes of decided Jevity, such as an unintentional likeness of Professor Rand performing on skiis, a clever whack at the Nominating Committee and a geographical joke or two which banish all dark thoughts of Christmas from our minds...
...ball inside the five-yard line, where the advance was temporarily checked, only to have Gratwick eventually slip off tackle for the score. Humphrey signalized his entry to the game by the hardest running he has done this year; his dashes that ripped off 15 yards at a whack again placed the ball in the shadow of the goal posts between which Buell warily booted his neat goal just before the period closed...