Word: jacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yard Run.--Jack Bruce, J. W. Belser, W. L. Chapin, L. M. Harris, J. L. Mahin, D. B. Wilson...
About 260 men are now reporting for boxing at the Hemenway Gymnasium, 80 of whom are Freshmen. Jack Mc-Clellan, who has been coaching the second squad in the absence of Coach Lawrence Conley, states that a remarkable improvement has been shown since he first took charge three weeks...
...this there is naught that is novel. Old histories of Paris and London tell of the concourses which attended Charles Duval, Dick Turpin, Jack Sheppard and other criminal worthies on their way to the gibbet at Tyburn and Montfaucon as the case might be. More recently this country witnessed the public testimonials paid to the life and character of Jesse James, Civil War guerrilla and highwayman, whose dashing bank raids are now so much affected. James was shot from behind by a comrade, Bob Ford, as he lay concealed in his hiding place. The American public was angered...
...game than not to see it at all." In opposition, the only criticism that suggests itself is the steepness of the ramp--but that could probably be overcome by the carpenter's ingenuity. Favorable arguments are plentiful. Surely it is easier to remain standing than to execute the continued jack-in-the-box motion required under the present plan. And when ten large individuals are assigned to a row that nature and the carpenter cut out for only nine puny specimens, there is presented a problem of cubic capacity to which there is only one answer...
...excellently designed, and well executed. The acting is even and not in the least forced or conventional; the absence of a "star" has led Mr. Marcin to put several of the parts into the hands of capable farceux. Mr. Hawley's "Jerry Hammond" bordered on the stereotyped, but Jack Raffael, as a slightly inebriated bank director, was very careful not to overdo his part. Miss Risdon, in the role of "Mrs Knowles" gave some fine examples of emotional acting, which unfortunately were set in too mirthful surroundings to be taken at their full value. For the play is after...