Word: checkbooks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lorelei Lee, as nearly every one knows, is the long-suffering little murderess from Arkansas whom a Mr. Gus Eisman, Chicagoan in the button profession, found in Holly-wood and "educated." Her schoolroom is a suite at the Ritz, her text the Eisman checkbook. The play opens on shipboard, with Lorelei out-golddigging a pair of antique Britishers, what time she snares Henry Spoffard, a Presbyterian playboy from Philadelphia with millions to be diverted from moral uplift to Mr. Cartier's jewelry store. She winds up in Manhattan having a three-day debut party with boys from the Racquet...
Free Service? A flapper with twelve one-dollar-bills and a rouged smile should not be entitled to a fancy checkbook, according to banker C. W. Allendoerfer of Kansas City, who fulminated against the length to which "free service" is being carried by banks. He declared that country correspondents who want theatre tickets bought for them should be humored; but that a line must be drawn somewhere. Accounts must be examined to discover whether they are really profitable...
However, a few titles that suggest themselves for the delectation and profit of the ill-starred mariner are the following: (1) Checkbook; (2) Joyce's Ulysses; (3) Cicero's De Senectute; (4) Walter Camp's Daily Dozen; (5) Cookbook; (6) Coué's Self-Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion; (7) The Bartender's Guide; (8) The family photograph album; (9) Joke Book; (10) The Book of Etiquette...