Word: gratz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...iron (Ferris wheel, merry-go-round, whip, etc.), the moneymaking rides that most carnies consider the backbone of their show. The crowd-pulling mittcamps (palm-reading and pocket-picking gypsies) were gone. The gypsies had pinched some hogs from farmers in the last town, and the Gratz fuzz (cops) had sent them packing. Billed simply as "Stella," for its leading stripper, the girlie show was doing all right-neither rain nor dark of night, only the mark's initial embarrassment, ever slows its ticket sales. But even when the sun came out to dry the midway, the carnies...
...soiled afterthought of a goatee. The smutched, shoulder-length mane wagged damply beneath a fly-blown Stetson. "All of that and all of that." The waving arms and lying words swished briefly before gaudy posters of improbable freaks. Somehow, out of the rain-bedraggled midway of the Gratz (Pa.) Fair, a crowd gathered. It always does when the harsh, vocal magic of Colonel Lew Alter begins to turn the tip (con the rubes) into his new "Can It Be Possible?" show...
...loans. Mrs. Young thereby trademarked the "mink coat" cycle of scandals. Another RFC beneficiary, the American Lithofold Corp., retained the Democratic National Committee's Bill Boyle-who resigned as national chairman after the fact became known. From American Lithofold came expensive cameras as "gifts" to Turney Gratz, an RFC official who became one of Boyle's top national committee aides. Assistant RFC Loan Manager Frank Prince and Matt Connelly. Other evidence showed that White House Personnel Aide Donald Dawson, one of the subjects of a Senate Committee report (which Harry Truman denounced as "asinine"), had exercised a marvelous...
...much of a hitter in those days, but he made the most of the gifts he had. In the spring of 1936. the baseball coach at Elizabeth Gillespie Junior High School put out a call for candidates. The best boys would be allowed to play for nearby Simon Gratz High School...
...meeting of the Electoral College. Since the 66 electors pledged to Greeley were voting for a lost cause, they were left on their own. Three voted for the dead man, three spread their votes among other party leaders, 18 voted for their party's vice presidential candidate. B. Gratz Brown, and 42 gave their ballots to the governor of Indiana, Thomas A. Hendricks. In 1912, the Republicans' vice presidential nominee, James Sherman, died the Wednesday before election. There was no time to get his name off the ballot; after the election, the party's national committee chose...