Word: ormont
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indians "hang" (loiter) in the phone booths in the lobby. Those who hit luck without losing their gains too fast to the horses or to other promoters become "heels," paying perhaps $10 a month for a cubicle on the third floor. The renting agent, Morty Ormont (French for Goldberg), knows a heel is out of business when his hat is gone. The luckiest of the heels move upstairs and become "tenants"; but sooner or later, tenants turn up in the lobby booths as Indians again. Some leading Jollity Building denizens...
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