Word: hatcheck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stop right there. Who said anything about reasonable? Give the waiter 20%, the captain a dollar or two dollars, the hatcheck girl 25 or 50?, the powder-room attendant a quarter, the doorman a quarter and the beggar in front of the door a quarter-then switch with the beggar...
...singing. The stage: a bread box in front of a Philadelphia store. Even then, her voice was hoarse, her hair stringy, her teeth protruding. But the Olney neighborhood liked her. By the time she was 17 she was singing in a Camden, N.J. nightclub, where she earned, as combination hatcheck-girl, vocalist and electrician, about $85 a week. The turning-point in her career came when she met a handsome, liquid-eyed insurance broker named Frank Kinsella...