Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Blood, Leftie Louie, Dago Frank, etc., were executed for killing Rosenthal. Another Gyp the Blood, a onetime newspaper man, was an undercover prohibition agent...
...avoid the censor. It was not toned down much. A Cross was visible in lecherous episodes and Sharon's trumpets had jazz-mutes in them. Ructions among the producers led to postponements and the retirement of William A. Brady from his sponsorship. On the first night, the press agent, having left his job, leaped upon the stage with Sharon's converts, voicing a mock repentance. The crude vigor of the performance and the oily excesses of the actors made Elmer Gantry an exciting, though phoney, melodrama...
...Tysons and Agent John J. Mitchell† went to the Helen Morgan Club again and again. Their check was $92.60 the second time. On their third visit Louis Zalud brought Helen Morgan, the "hostess," to their table and introduced her. She sat down and asked for brandy. When it came, they complimented her on its quality. She told them it ought to be good because "it costs us $6.25 a quart wholesale." She explained : "We don't handle gin because all the college boys drink gin....They generally have only about $20 to spend in an evening and bring...
Hostess Morgan said: "It's not for sale, but I'll help you start one in Dallas" [where Agent Tyson had said he lived...
According to Agent Tyson, Hostess Morgan told him she had "an arrangement with Campbell whereby he doesn't bother me any more." "Campbell" was Major Maurice Campbell, Prohibition Administrator for the New York area, whose men illegally axed, smashed and evacuated a club where Hostess Morgan "worked" last winter...