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This one was a sockdolager.
Duck threads the needle of Sockdolager, yanking the boat away from sharp raft-puncturing rocks.
Duck, our scraggily bearded guide, drives down the smooth entrance to the perilous Sockdolager Rapids.
Because some Christian worship services include a doxology, and these hymns therefore were familiar and well-practiced among church choirs, the English word 'sockdolager' arose, a deformation of 'doxology', which came to mean a "show-stopper", a production number.
The program's final attraction, "Sockdolager," directed by Jimmy Bohr and starring Grant James Varjas as Ty, the surviving twin, and Susan Pilar as Dora, his brother's Cuban girlfriend, is its most fully realized and satisfying.
Babe Ruth's first home run as a Yankee, on May 1, 1920, was characterized by the New York Times reporter as a "sockdolager" (i.e. a decisive blow), and was described as traveling "over the right field grand stand into Manhattan Field".