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...accent suggests, Mae West originated in Brooklyn, not later than 1900. Her father, Jack West, was a prizefighter and theatre bouncer. Her sister played in vaudeville as Beverly Osborne. In vaudeville, Mae West developed her figure with an acrobatic act in which she lifted a 500-lb. weight, supported three 150-lb. male assistants. She played with Ed Wynn in Sometime, shimmied in Shubert revues, made her name on the Manhattan stage with Diamond Lil, in which she was a genial prostitute. The enormous swan-shaped bed which appeared on the stage in Diamond Lil came from Mae West...
...getting out with both his money and an intact skull. If he withstood in turn the blandishments of the "pretty waiter girls," aphrodisiac in his drink, tobacco juice in his whisky, a pinch of snuff in his beer, without succumbing to one thing or another, there was always a bouncer in a dark hallway to knock him down, pick his pockets, roll him into the gutter...
Haled into a Los Angeles court to explain a debt of $292.10, huge Jess Willard, onetime heavyweight boxing champion, told a municipal referee that he was working for about $15 a week as a bouncer in a meat market he once owned. He had himself photographed ejecting a tiny newshawk. Later he confessed: "That's all a joke about my being a bouncer. There's nothing to bounce around here except pieces of meat. I'm manager here. . . . Can't tell you my salary but it's a lot more than $15 weekly. Why that...
...murder of a noted bandit and racketeer is bound to be a matter of some interest to the "composite reader," When in addition the victim has successively over a seventeen-year period matured felonious little plans as "wagon bouncer," small-time "chiseler," labor terrorizer, robber, murderer, narcotic smuggler, and leader of a "mob" in liquor traffic, he becomes at least deserving of notice in the news. Yesterday showed that if he can acquire a nickname, be twenty-three times arrested in vain, and attain a certain facility in absorbing and dodging lead, he may be judged worthy of even...
...Bouncer. Lieut, L. E. Hunting's plane was guilty of treachery, but the flyer returned good for evil. Going into a tail spin at low altitude, the plane hit the ground, bounced, but somehow he held it in the air. Realizing the landing gear was crushed, he scorned the safety of his parachute, circled, flew to nearby Kelly Field (San Antonio, Tex.)' and eased the ship down so gently that it stopped virtually undamaged...