Word: cabareting
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Yank's title adequately prefigures its plot as well as the picture's chief weakness: too much Yank, too little R.A.F. The business of getting a London cabaret queen (bountiful Betty Grable-not the slip of a girl she used to be) and Pilot Power together is so touchy that there is small time left for R.A.F.orts. Overdeveloped though it is, the story (concocted by Producer Darryl Zanuck) notably avoids most of the ruts of Hollywood's aviation epics (e.g., Tyrone Power does not even become a hero...
...Manager Roxborough, pleased with his puppet, continued to use Louis as an ambassador of racial good will. He advised Joe to treat his opponents with unusual deference, inside the ring and out. He forbade him to have his picture taken with any white woman, or ever to enter a cabaret alone. When Joe was caught speeding at 90 m.p.h. along a Chicago boulevard, Roxborough took away his driving license, has never since permitted him to drive a car (one of Joe's brothers has since been his chauffeur...
...sank $30,000 in the Brown Bomber softball team; to please another, he sank $42,000 in the Brown Bomber Chicken Shack, a Detroit eatery. He has been known to pay a check for $1,000 after his "secretary" (another pal) entertained some frisky friends in a Har lem cabaret...
...Such sets as a Paris literary cabaret; a cavernous, musty, Nazinfested hotel; a museum of instruments of torture...
...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...