Word: craps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...natives are all very good gamblers and they were on the deck of the ship shooting crap. In very good English you would hear them say "shoot five dollars" or "you're faded." They knew everything about a crap game...
...reputation for the musical clowning that has remained his stock in trade for a generation. It was on the curb outside Rector's that he acquired the battered, furry top hat which W. C. Fields later taught him to twirl with uncanny virtuosity. Lewis won it in a crap game from the driver of a hansom...
...getting old themselves. That year the American Legion had come to Omaha 50,000 strong. Fathers locked their daughters in at night; the telephone company had to hire special busses to get its operators safely to & from work, through the cordons of roistering, fanny-pinching Legionnaires. There were crap games on the streets, bonfires in hotel lobbies, impromptu band concerts all night. Sacks of water fell out of hotel windows on hapless pedestrians. No female was too formidably plain to be safe from leers or sudden noises behind...
...should see the Scotchmen running around developing film." The real show, however, was for the Yanks, and he knew what they wanted: "Were the soldiers at the last camp happy to see me! They actually got down on their knees. What a spectacle! What a tribute! What a crap game...
...always, the movie is not as good as the Broadway show, nor does it rank with the last all-negro production, "Green Pastures". The whole think is, roughly, about the conversion of "Little Joe" from a "no-good-crap shooter" to a "soldier of the Lord." In more detail, it included some very entertaining sequences of hell, and of the angels fighting with Satan's men for Little Joe's questionable soul...