Word: nightspot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three years ago, when nightspot managers around the U.S. were hiring a little-known Negro singer named Billy Eckstine, they tagged him with such labels as "The Sepia Sinatra" and "The Bronze Balladeer" to help lure customers in. Some were lured, and many of them began buying Billy's M-G-M records. By last year, after his Fool that I Am had sold around 200,000, Billy, a big, well-set-up (6 ft., 185 Ibs.) boy with flashing white teeth, had begun to look like a top crooner in his own right...
...front pages, the New York Daily News coolly threw its quake pictures on the floor. It had exclusive, newsstand-shocking news of its own; on Page One, the Daily News slapped a full-page action shot of Stripteasers Georgia Sothern and Joann Collier, zestfully clawing each other outside a nightspot where they both worked...
Once arrived in Saigon, secret agent Powell proceeds to make himself extremely inconspicuous. After a thorough scrubbing, he dons a white lines suit and goes to a local nightspot where he stands at the bar and drinks champagne. So far, so good...
Soon she was singing in a West End revue, working in a nightspot after the show, and changing costumes in a taxi going from one to the other. Once the taxi was stopped for speeding, she recalls, "and when the bobby looked inside the car, he discovered a naked lady." She married Laughton in 1929, went to Hollywood with...
...whose girl he makes a pass at. Just as ugly are other stories in which a drunken father fills his son with cold shame, a cynical screenwriter deceives a horrible adolescent, a beautiful but unbearable white girl from Texas tries to make trouble in a Harlem nightspot...