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Except for an occasional nightclub outing with Dixie, he spends his evenings at home with the family telling the boys bedtime stories in Crosbyesque slang. One night Little Red Riding Hood finally gets "hep" that the wolf isn't grandma; the next night Goldilocks makes a "three-bowl parlay" on the bears' porridge. Every few months he asks over his old musician friends-Manny Klein, Lennie Hayton, Joe Venuti, and whoever happens to be in town-for a jam session in his large rumpus room. Summers he packs the family off to the ranch near...
...Meringer said he planned to send his son William to college. In Baltimore, reporters discovered a grocery store proprietor named David Dusell who had won $3,400 and explained why he was not surprised at his good fortune: "Two years ago I won $5,700 at Bowie on a parlay ticket and in 1905 I won the same amount." In Marblehead, Mass. William H. Sweet, 61-year-old fisherman who had won $50,000, and looks like Calvin Coolidge, said he did not know what he would do with the money. Asked by a photographer to smile, Fisherman Sweet snarled...
After the War, songwriters Al Dubin, Irving Mills, Jimmie McIlugh and Irwin Dash published a euphemistic parody, without continuity, called "Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo Vooo...
...French they are a funny race. Parlay-Vooooo...