Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...around the town it darts, its thumb to its nose, but with a slightly dreamy look in its eyes. Manhattanites, swelling, with small-town pride at its air of big-town savvy, will be the show's best audience. But out-of-towners, whether from Butte or Brooklyn, should find...
...Lakewood, N. J., Justice Sidney Zweben sentenced a Brooklyn motorist caught passing a school bus to write "I must not pass a school bus in Lakewood" 100 times on the school blackboard...
...afford to laugh it off, got into the act as gracefully as possible. Amiable Rhymester Nick Kenny wrote a poem ("Loafing in a barroom, see them in a row; Silly women barflies, putting on a show. . . .") The doggerel brought Poet Kenny a nasty note from a woman in Brooklyn: "Confidentially, I think you're going nuts...
...snow-clogged Brooklyn, boys built snow booby traps across freshly plowed streets, patiently waited for drivers to get stuck. Then they shoveled the cars...
...minute-around-the-walls-of-an-upright-BOWL! . . . Come on, brother . . . defy the laws of gravity! . . ." Shortly before the venture folded, Peck took a job ushering tourists around Rockefeller Center, where his performances were no more outstanding. Until he learned better, he innocently assured other eager outlanders that Brooklyn was a part of New Jersey. He once fell asleep in a box while his charges outstayed (by an outrageous 20 minutes) their free glimpse of a Radio City show...