Word: cashier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, Turner's dance arena rocked to the music of Duke Ellington. White Musician Josana Quantian stepped up to the ticket window. The cashier tossed his money back. The arena had been reserved that night for Negroes only...
...used all the stock props of rough, tough melodrama in his new thriller. There is the sneering, dame-slapping heel of a hero (Dan Duryea), the bad girl (Joan Bennett) who asks to be slapped around and seems to enjoy it, and the frightened, henpecked little middle-aged cashier (Edward G. Robinson) with a simple-minded yen for the girl. Everyone in the picture misbehaves and everyone comes to a bad end. Even so, studio publicists made the most of a decision by New York censors that the film is "indecent, immoral . . . and tending to corrupt morals...
...afternoon quiet had settled in the dining room of Manhattan's Midston House. Ten-year-old Cornelius Kaehane pushed in, walked to the cashier's desk, took two plastic toy pistols out of the pockets of his shabby lumberjacket. He stared at the young woman with his dirty face full of furious purpose. Nothing happened. Infuriated, he slammed one of his pistols down on the desk and cried, ''This is a stickup." A look of mild annoyance crossed the cashier's face. Cornelius stood on tiptoe, grabbed two ten-dollar and two one-dollar bills...
...wheeled wildly, found his avenue of retreat blocked by a waitress. She patted his head and asked the cashier, "Is this your little boy, ma'am?" Cornelius shrieked, "Cut that out. This is a stickup." He jammed one pistol into the waitress' starched uniform. A second later she was shaking him angrily. One of his guns fell to the floor and broke into four pieces. The police came, took the money away from him, hauled him off as a delinquent. He did not cry. "I made a mistake somewhere," he said, "I saw it all done...
Occupational Hazards. In Chicago, two gunmen demanded the day's receipts from Theater Cashier Helen Tindle, hurried away when she replied...