Word: plunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between 1928 and 1934 the Tru-Mint Corp. and its subsidiaries operated as many as 5,000 machines. In some cases they were equipped with little ladders to help the kiddies plunk in their nickels. The machines were protected from the police through an injunction against seizure. They were protected from rival hoodlums by a private police force, whose efficiency is reflected by this report from the company files...
...cowboys, who take to such luxuries as $125 hand-embroidered gabardine shirts, moppets can also indulge in embroidered shirts for $15, embossed holsters at $15, fringed and decorated leather chaps at $12, and even cowboy pajamas for $2.98. To have a well-dressed cowboy in the home, parents can plunk out as much as $83.40 for a single outfit. For another $42.50, they can buy a gabardine shirt, trousers and felt hat for a cowgirl. Even at those prices, retailers have found little buyers' resistance...
...ukulele is plunk in the middle of a comeback, said Uke Maker Jay Kraus last week. He expected about 300,000 to sell this year-nothing like the 1,000,000 sold to flappers and friends in 1925, but good as compared with the 40,000-to-60,000 average in the early '40s. One explanation for the demand: frog-voiced Arthur Godfrey's use of the uke on his television show...
...week's end, nobody had been locked up, nobody fined. As their buses banged along toward the Jail of the Lost Child, Tacuba Cemetery or Mercy Slaughterhouse, Mexicans heard as usual the consoling plunk-plunk of the minstrels' guitars, and the familiar words borne long ago by the wind that swept Mexico: // 7 am to die tomorrow, Let them kill me right away...
Beginner. In The Bronx, Pickpocket Plunk Williams confessed to police that he was only an apprentice, that two experienced friends had tried to teach him but "I'm a poor pupil. I fumble every time...