Word: clink
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quarters for Corn. Few girls get a break from the jukebox trade these days; the quarters clink in the slot for the grinding corn of Fabian or Frankie Avalon. or the molasses-slow maundering of Johnny Mathis. Lola, who must settle for less, deserves more. She has been learning her trade, scrabbling at the edges of show business, ever since she sang Listen to the Mocking Bird at her home-town Y.W.C.A. in Akron 25 years ago. She was a gawky ten-year-old then, defiant of her parents' dislike of anything that smacked of entertainment. Today...
...torchy, the songs of Felicia Sanders throb with a strange, sinewy vitality in the basement's air-cooled dark. The mikes and the speakers and the slow-changing spotlights are superfluous. When Felicia sings, the silence beyond the stage is the silence of rapt attention. The clink of glasses stops, the convivial chatter dies and, for a little while, Greenwich Village's Bon Soir nightclub belongs...
...scene to gladden even the most jaded cruise director. The open-air movie was filled to capacity with a bronzed, relaxed audience. In the swimming pool near by, energetic types were splashing away at water polo. From the "Bikini" bar came the clink of glasses and the hum of bar babble, and in the soft glow cast by indirect neon lighting, palm leaves fluttered...
...doubles as a masseur, to unstiffen the rusted joints of two rheumatic old villagers. The healing scene is comical, but writing of it, White manages to convey the dignity of the two crippled ancients and the courage of the lonely, ridiculous African. The story ends with a clink and a gurgle. "Our faces glowing with liquor, our eyes more flashing, our tongues volubly tripping and repeating, we had great concert of talk and narrative, admiring ourselves and one another with warm, welcoming, smiling, appreciative, comradely, rosy hearts. We talked of motor engines and Henry Ford, of poith...
...Friendly Clink. As his Republican majority in the Senate (34-24) and Assembly (92-56) began to show signs of crumbling, Politician Rockefeller went to work. One day he would invite legislative leaders to dinner at the executive mansion, discuss and debate for as long as five hours. Another day he would charge up to the third-floor Capitol office of Assembly Speaker Oswald Heck of upstate Schenectady to argue some more...