Word: jacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discussion of comic personality on the musical stage can be quite adequate without due homage to Jack Hazzard, whose sentimental song parody is one of the brighter moments in the Greenwich Village Follies, or the overpowering pair of lovebirds, Savoy and Brennan, or the cowboy wit, Will Rogers of the Ziegfeld Follies...
Jacinto Benavente, author of The Passion Flower: " On arriving in New York, I told reporters that American literature is almost unknown in Spain-except for Mark Twain, Jack London, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Upton Sinclair, and Longfellow...
...Jack from Bill...
...Jack Dempsey: "When newspaper reporters mentioned my name to General Degoutte commanding the French in the Ruhr, he asked: 'Who is Jack Dempsey?' For that matter, I never heard of General Degoutte...
...hundred and thirty-five pounds of Luis Angel Firpo, pretender to the throne of Jack Dempsey, arrived in New York from his native Argentina. The immediate objective of Firpo's wanderings is a bout with the aged British heavyweight, Bill Brennan, at Madison Square Garden on March 14 under the aegis of Tex Rickard. If Brennan allows himself to be dispatched with the deftness and dociliity that has characterized his appearances before other young heavyweights, Firpo will be matched with Willard, Floyd Johnson, and-if fate favors him-with Dempsey...