Word: mike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's Advertising Club on Park Avenue, a man was making a speech. Suddenly, to the amazement of the audience, the mike in front of the speaker's mouth burst into music...
...Holden Tinkham rose to speak in the House for the first time in half a dozen years he was saddened by a new kind of heckling. Again & again as he warmed to his theme (neutrality), and strode dramatically across the rostrum, his choicest passages were drowned by shouts of "Mike! Mike!" Finally he grabbed the microphone with both hands as if it were a python that he was about to strangle and bellowed the rest of his message at it. Afterward he groused: "These damned microphones! They talk back to you-just like a Democrat...
Three years ago, after a long career of dodging immigration officials and rubber-checking rich and high-born speak-easy acquaintances, Mike's luck ran out. After a short spell in jail, he skipped Manhattan...
Next year he turned up in Hollywood with a screen story to sell about Ellis Island. It was a flop, but since then Mike has been getting $50 a week from Twentieth Century-Fox (he says $150), sometimes working as an extra for other studios (Cafe Society, Fools for Scandal). He lives thriftily with his ikons in a modest flat in Beverly Hills, drives the right people to the right places in his two-year-old Cadillac, owes only a minor tailor bill, which is disappearing by installments...
Saturday's Clover Club celebration was a great success. Mike's current patron, Jules Stein of the Music Corporation of America, donated an orchestra. Mike himself showed up with $25 in his pocket which he pyramided to $125 at the gaming tables before the party broke up at 6 a. m. Missing from the guest list were a great many familiar Hollywood partygoers, including fat Elsa Maxwell, cafe society's coast-to-coast whoops-a-daisy. Explained the host: "No phonies...