Word: craps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christmas rush was running like a payday crap game. By Thanksgiving Day, the traditional opening date for Christmas shoppers, hundreds of counters already had that picked-over look. Now, every day, from the halls of Bullock's-Wilshire to the floors of Marshall Field's, surging regiments of customers joined in the nation's greatest early-season buying spree...
...love scenes. But there is nothing friendly about G.I. reactions to films which make the enemy look stupid or easily beaten. In Rome a G.I. said: "Stuff like Humphrey Bogart whipping a whole German armored-car column practically singlehanded gives us pains in the pratt, because that kind of crap gives the folks at home the wrong kind of idea about what we are up against." In the South Pacific, as one cinema hero mowed down the enemy like Superman at harvest home, G.l.s sprang to their feet yelling: "Wait a minute buddy, I'll help yah!" Then they...
Happy gyps her out of her winnings at the crap table, hurries on with his insolvent boys to Schultz's Copacabana, in Brooklyn. The vengeful sisters and their father follow. From there on Happy's two-timing gets more & more complicated and less & less funny. Too much of this dizzy story shows signs of hard labor; about half is rather enjoyable. Betty Hutton (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek) gets funnier with every picture. She is the most startling expression of natural force since the Johnstown Flood...
...Come-Out (First Roll) 35 to 1 ($1,75 to 5?) against double numbers 17 to 1 (85? to 5?) against 11 11 to 1 (55? to 5?) against 4 or 10 8 to 1 (40? to 5? against 5 or 9 8 to 1 (40? to 5?) against crap (2, 3, 12) 5 to 1 (25? to 5?) against...
...offer Henry?" While awaiting the answer, someone babbled "There's family cheer in Hires Root Beer" and the band played You Are My Sunshine. There was just one thing wrong with Henry's story: he had gotten his injury by tumbling off a boxcar while watching a crap game...