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...want to work fer the CRIMSON...
...working-class solidarity. Hit of the show was 69-year-old "Granny" Nelly Cressall, Labor's grand old lady, whose pep talk was recorded and will be played at street corners during the campaign. Excerpt: "I remember the days when my neighbors used ter come and ask me fer a penny fer the gas meter-and I 'adn't got it. Now they come creatin' about their big gas bills. It makes me mad-'aven't they got memories? Don't they know what this wonderful party's done fer...
...laughed too. Croupiers, whom he often left hoarse and groggy after all-night sessions, had a nickname for the huge, lusty man who puffs eight-inch cigars and gambles with machine-like energy-they call him The Locomotive. In one week The Locomotive lost $160,000 at chemin de fer...
Inside, the finishing touches had been made. Artists had just put the last bright reds and yellows to the 25-ft. mural showing a Puerto Rican feast-day celebration; roulette wheels, chemin de fer and dice tables had been moved into the casino. The blue-tiled swimming pool cut out of the coral rock and the bright yellow-awninged beach cabanas were all ready for the first guests...
...French fleas?" came the equally chill voice of the publicity man for the French Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer. "Has some new method, then, been discovered for establishing the paternity of a flea? Do these fleas, perhaps, speak with a French accent? To speak of French fleas? Monsieur, is that not going, quite possibly...