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Sentence. In Miami, Judge Cecil C. Curry sentenced two men found rolling dice on a Flagler Street sidewalk to "one minute each in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 14, 1941 | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...killer" tune, you can't go wrong on this. It's played at a breakneck pace, and is a fight to the finish, although it's hard to say who wins (OKEH) . . . Fats Waller turns out more insane novelty on "All That Meat and No Potatoes and Buckin' the Dice, latter including tenor sax by Gene Cedric. One of these days people are going to realize what a mean horn he plays (BLUEBIRD...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWING | 4/12/1941 | See Source »

...hermaphroditic comedy at Mother Kelly's. Across Biscayne Bay, on the Miami side, painted men danced and profaned sweet songs at the Club Ha-Ha. In the casinos at Ben Marden's Colonial Inn, the Sunny Isles Club, the Royal Palm, gamblers crowded the roulette and dice tables. On the ocean side, Glamor Row flung its facade of stucco and neon at the sky and the sea: the new Lord Tarleton, the Versailles, the older Roney Plaza, many another hostelry where the cheaper rooms went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Good Season | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

...Angeles court on behalf of two women (afterwards acquitted) on trial for practicing optometry without a license, lank, brooding British Author Aldous Huxley described the improvement in his vision which had come from exercises they had given him - including staring at Mexican jumping beans and bouncing dice till he could read with out glasses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 10, 1941 | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

...Jersey State Legislature, never noted for its dignity, outdid itself one night last week. A hillbilly band twanged while some lawmakers applauded, some moaned. A fireworks bomb exploded. Members gave dozing colleagues the hotfoot. Dice and cards rattled in anterooms, and bars in the vicinity of the State House did a brisk trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Hague-Washington Axis? | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

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