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...disappear from the hand of a small native girl. She let out a piercing scream, her arm became completely stiff, and the natives grew menacing. "She knows the money is inside her arm," grunted the native chief. "Makes her sick." Conjurer Garner hastily improvised a new trick: extracted the coin from the flesh of her arm and all was well...
Juno and the Paycock (by Sean O'Casey; produced by Edward Choate & Arthur Shields in association with Robert Edmond Jones). Flung on the Broadway pavement many times since it was minted in Dublin in 1924, Juno and the Paycock still rings out like a silver coin. Whatever its faults, there is nothing pinched or paltry about it. Its stagecraft is clumsy at times and its plot too theatrical, but its background is richly Irish and its two middle-aged title characters-sturdy, ill-used, valiant-hearted Juno and her strutting, shiftless, drunken Paycock of a husband-are abundantly alive...
Sirs: If the Washington correspondents cannot coin a name for the '30s perhaps TIME readers can do so. As one, I submit Hangovera as a suitable title for that period following the Torrid Twenties Jamboree. Bitter tongues and family quarrels; sour medicines and the doctor's bill;-a morning after if there ever was one, complete with Pink Elephants...
TIME (Nov. 27, p. 56) refers to a coin-operated phonograph as a "juke box." Since Gainesville is - if not the birthplace - at least the incubator and nursery for the term, I feel a more-or-less fatherly interest in it and ask that you conform to our usage in the future. To the Florida Man such an instrument is a jook-organ and nothing else...
...Says Authority McGuire: "jook as noun means a rather ordinary roadhouse outside the city limits . . . where beer is for sale, and where there is a coin phonograph, or nickelodeon, and space for dancing...