Word: joes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Money Business. Lew Fields, who teamed so successfully and so long with Joe Weber, comes back by himself in a straight comedy. It is the story of a delicatessen dealer who plunged in Wall Street with grievous consequences. Mr. Fields is pretty funny now and then, and the play is pretty dull all the time...
Last week, however, a youth whose face shone clean and pleasant beneath his black skullcap, said something just as Joe was opening the cash-drawer to "oblige" him. The youth said: "I'm John D, Rockefeller III. I. . . ." Sock! went the cash-drawer, tight shut. Joe wiped a glass on his spotted apron. The freshman stammered, expostulated. Finally Joe spoke. "Nutting doing," he said around his cigar-stub. "A guy worked dat on me last year...
...Sorriernell, Joe. Can't do it yet. I'm still flat, punctured, blown-out, busted, broke. No slim blue literature from the Big Squeeze...
...Sorriernell, Joe...
...Joe hates to dun Speed. Speed is his friend, his good old boy friend, perhaps his fraternity brother. The thing goes on. Perhaps Speed never pays him back. Ten dollars isn't much, but it's the principle of the thing. And sometimes these informal loans involve real principal. Then Speed and Joe, once good friends, reach a snarling estrangement. One calls the other "tightwad," "usurer"; is himself called "dead beat," "sponger," "crook," "bummer...