Word: hangouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always keeps both doors unlocked, a big jar of candy on the television set, a bag of apples by the refrigerator, ice cream and soda pop in the refrigerator, and a box of cookies on the kitchen table. It's understandable that our place is a favorite hangout for the neighborhood kids. And there are lots of them. Sometimes they come in platoons. It isn't uncommon to see ten of them sprawled out in front of the television set watching six-shooters roar as badmen bite the dust. This is especially true on Saturday mornings...
Hollywood, a glittering city of outsize swimming pools and pink Cadillacs, has its homey side, too. It has a favorite corner drugstore, called Schwab's. For years Schwab's has been a hangout for movie stars, hangers-on and Coke-stretchers, who sit at the soda fountain sipping their drinks, waiting for miracles, or just thumbing the movie magazines borrowed from the magazine rack. At Schwab's, Columnist Sidney Skolsky receives mail, phone calls and tips. With Skolsky's syndicated help, Schwab's has become the best-known corner drugstore...
...living artist. The mural commission followed. Cossio took a studio atop a downtown Madrid skyscraper and established a daily routine: mornings working alone on the mural at the church, afternoons painting and resting alone in his studio, evenings chatting with friends at the Café Gijon, an artists' hangout...
This is the color of the book. Through bits of dialogue, description, and quotation, Bainbridge recreates the atmosphere of Shor's hangout, telling of a man who judges people by whether or not he'd like to be with them at two o'clock in the morning, of a man who claims the only five syllable word he knows is "delicatessen...
...Durante career had its seamy side, too. One big source of income for the trio was the Manhattan speakeasy they ran during Prohibition, a favorite gangster hangout. But Jimmy managed to dodge real trouble. The only time he was pinched for selling liquor, he moaned, "I'm brandied as a criminal...