Word: joe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...loaves float down to him, Huck fishes them in, takes out the plugs, shakes dabs of quicksilver out of the insides and eats them. "It was 'baker's bread'-what the quality eat; none of your low-down corn-pone." Huck is joined by Tom and Joe and together they speculate on how Bill Turner, drowned the summer before, was found by loaded loaves. Tom says its not so much the bread that found the body, or the quicksilver either, but some incantations that were said over them...
...Joe's first release will appear in Monday's issue in the form of a general prophesy for the season...
...Rich-Joe Laurie as a well-meaning young man who cannot afford a Long Island house party...
...gaudy wisecracks and patches from several other farces in which New York vernacular has been employed for dramatic effect. Almost all the comedies of this season carry some echo of George Kelly's The Showoff. This one even shamelessly copies John Bartel's famed laugh. Joe Laurie, former vaudeville star, quite appropriately graduates into the leading role. The play appeals especially to the humor and tear ducts of folk who are not irritated because the title fails to attain the proper subjunctive mood...
Frightened by the glint in Joe Jordan's eye, Mae Jordan sought work, found none for a child so inexperienced and anemic as herself. Desperate, she begged odd jobs of baby tending, dish washing, floor scrubbing from residents in the apartment. One November day she sought her father radiant: "Mr. Klein and Mr. Platz want me to 'do' their apartment every day for $10 a month...