Word: el
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keeps such an example of the toy stuffer's art on sale. He bought two large specimens for $25 apiece. Bogart welcomed them jovially, handed one to Manhattan Wholesale Grocer Bill Seeman, his drinking companion, and with the other under his arm, departed for the much more elegant El Morocco. All in all, it was a small thing. A nothing. It was not as though he had settled down amid El Morocco's zebra-striped decor with a live giraffe...
Miss Roberts, a model, then told her simple story. She, too, had been at El Morocco in the small hours, and as she was leaving in a dignified way with a big manufacturing person from Philadelphia, she came within range of Bogart's panda. At this exact moment a funny person asked her if she wanted the beast. She emitted a tinkling laugh and reached for it. Then this awful person, Bogart, charged out of nowhere...
...Lovable Character." The next day the tabloids bloomed with cheesecake and photographs, re-enacting the whole affair for posterity. El Morocco banned Bogart "for life" in a pronunciamento delivered in tones as sepulchral as if he were being sentenced to the electric chair. It was, the management explained, his second offense -he had once insisted on keeping his hat on and threatened to push his cigarette in a customer's face...
Among this year's Fellows will be Thomas W. Danner of North Carolina, Joseph A. DeVincentis of Somerville, Robert J. Hall of Franklin Park, Illinois, and Alexis E. Laster of El Monte, California...
...rodders condescended to mingle with jalopy racers) was just an impromptu "drag race," a hell-raising skirmish good for scaring the citizenry and testing the latest motor and fuel adjustments. The real hot rodders meet on weekends at the hard-packed sandy stretches in the dry lake beds of El Mirage, 106 miles northeast of Los Angeles. There, under careful racing conditions, hot-rod clubs known as the "Dragons," the "Cranks" or the "Gents" skim over the sand at speeds of 100 to 180 m.p.h...