Word: bouncers
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...Phony Booster, who peddles sleazier ties which he claims to have stolen but which he really bought very cheap. Paddy despises Mac as a racketeer but, as the dipsomaniac bouncer at Jollity Danceland tells him, soothingly, "It takes all kinds of people to make up a great city...
Also in Chicago is fat-faced Max Caldwell. From a lowly start as a waiter-bouncer and an unsuccessful organizer of hat-check girls and nightclub entertainers, Mr. Caldwell bounced into the food-store field, where his take in dues and initiation fees was said to be terrific...
...whenever anything goes wrong. He is the New Deal's Janitor, who cleans out the goboons and sweeps up the floor (usually using some victim as the broom). He captains the Purity Squad that keeps his colleagues honest. He is the Public Executioner, the Court Poisoner and the Bouncer. In short, if there is on the docket a hard, nasty, grinding job, Ickes gets the assignment...
...recent elopement with Count Oleg Cassini, Hollywood dress designer, was "silly." Nancy Kelly, 20, onetime child star, called it quits with Actor Edmond O'Brien, 25, sued him for divorce. John Barrymore got into his umpteenth public scene, was delivered to the great outdoors by a nightclub bouncer...
...arrived in Shanghai in overalls and a pair of broken shoes and got himself a bouncer's job in a cabaret. A diligent muscle man, he soon saved enough to buy a share in a sailors' bar on Blood Alley. With the receipts from this he began buying slot machines, soon had the monopoly of all the machines in the French Concession...