Word: hatcheck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trap In Manhattan, Hatcheck Girl Katherine Steyer, 32, was electrocuted in her apartment by charged wires strung through the draperies. The wires had been arranged as a burglar trap...
...drunk rose, foolishly pawed at Dancer Blossom. Up went her arm, up in flames went the flimsy papier-mache ceiling. When firemen fought their way in to smother the blaze, they found a Chinese cook, three orchestramen hidden in the icebox. Dead from flames and trampling were the hatcheck girl, a woman patron, two men. Torch-Dancer Blossom was arrested for violating San Francisco's fire laws...