Word: rods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During his 16 years in Los Angeles, short, sharp-eyed Benny the Meatball grew chubby and genial and almost quit carrying a rod. Los Angeles was paradise for a wrong gee with the right connections. The sun was warm, suckers in dark glasses stood under every palm tree, and the cops obligingly kept Eastern hoods out of town...
...sake of his party of friends, he had put up with something for which he had little enthusiasm-fishing. He caught a few bonitos, red hind and barberfish (red with blue dots), but he made his political advisers wince by frankly saying that he was no devotee of rod & reel...
...spring she passed California's exam for real-estate saleswomen, and this winter will sell for a Beverly Hills firm which specializes in expensive homes with tennis courts and swimming pools. The firm, Lawrence Block, Inc., likes to dazzle prospective buyers with celebrity salesmen like onetime film star Rod La Rocque and Charles Christie, of early-day Christie Comedies' fame. Betz expects to be good...
Eddie Cantor, Joel McCrea and Comedienne Joan Davis had perfectly ripping luck, publicity-wise. They happened to be in a Hollywood café when a couple of hoods trotted in to beat up a gambler. One of the visitors kept the glowing celebrities at bay with a rod while the other gave the gambler ten deep cuts on the head with a blackjack...
...Cream. Some of the props for this extravaganza were hard to find. The average pop drinker would get only 30 bottles of his favorite carbonated beverage (as compared to a prewar plenty of 50). Marshmallows were short. So was beer. Buying a fly rod called for more negotiation than ordering a pound of opium. But ice cream production was up; the U.S. would eat 850 million gallons (mostly chocolate and vanilla) as compared to 400 million in 1945. And the briefest, trickiest women's bathing suits yet appeared on window dummies and good-looking girls from coast to coast...