Word: joey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alley's tunesmiths can match the havoc wrought by a gum-chewing Oklahoman named Jack Owens. He has an assist on a public nuisance of 1941 called The Hut-Sut Song, wrote Hi, Neighbor, a song which has become the nightly entering wedge of Pal Joey-type masters of ceremony the U.S. over. He composed for Red Skelton something called I Dood It, and in his own tenor voice has crooned the merits of orange drinks and frankfurters for singing commercials...
...Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn; produced by Monte Proser and Joseph Kipness) isn't a specially good show, but it's pretty often a gay one. A period musical (1913), it spins an amiably undisciplined yarn about a con man and his stooge (Phil Silvers and Joey Faye) who sell waterlogged real estate in New Brunswick, N.J., flee to Atlantic City, sneak back for a Rutgers-Princeton game, at the end are earnestly seeking fresh frauds and pitches...
...Horse. In a few years, he made millions, cut a wide swath on Broadway. He sank $40,000 in a play, acquired a swank Fifth Avenue apartment, took to horseback riding in Central Park and dealing with such labor racketeers as Joey Fay. In 1937 the murder of a striking sandhog labor leader, whom Sam had supposedly threatened to kill, almost toppled him from his throne. Police held Sam as a material witness, but freed him for lack of evidence...
Said Peggy, practically in her own words: "All I know is that someone came up on me from the rear. . . . Hands and lips on my shoulders! And then Joey popped him one. . . . These people who think they own you because you're a public figure! . . . Never in all my years! It's just not de rigueur...
...reporter like that was no man to stop halfway with the Peggy Joyce item. There was Joey Adams to see ("I just didn't know my own strength"), and he who got socked ("I just walked up behind her, and kissed her once, and said something about 'How about marrying me, Babe?' Really, I don't remember. . . ."). Then there was Eyewitness Jorge Benavides. a Peruvian delegate to U.N. Said he: "In Peru, we do what you do here in America. We bop him on the nose, like you say. Is that correct? Please do not involve...