Word: slot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like subway turnstiles and slot machines, the telephone is a traditional target for those Americans with a yen for outwitting the machine age. Before science developed the foolproof pay phone, nearly every college boy knew how to make it disgorge a tinkling stream of nickels. Last week Illinois Bell Telephone Co. ruefully explained another game that costs it as much as $400,000 annually: the free call, in which by various stratagems thousands of callers in toll booths and at home use the phone company's wires without ever paying a cent. At Bell's urging, the Illinois...
...Annapolis, the varsity was rained out of its first official league match with Navy after compiling a 3-1 lead. Junta, Harris, and Gravem, all in contention for the number one slot, each won impressively, while Connie Fischer dropped the Crimson's only match at fourth singles...
...this semibiographical account of how, with his father and uncle, Sammy reached the big time, he loses a certain edge from the show's brassy diffuseness, a certain authority from its lack of focus. He would very likely come off best on Broadway in the main slot of a revue. In any case, he is not well served in this jerry-built gag show, Broadway's latest example of burning down a house to roast...
CinemaScope camera through the world's gaudiest gambling hell, he undergoes seven acts of vaudeville, two complete ballets, about 15 casinos, several thousand slot machines and an oil gusher-not to overlook Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Frank Sinatra, Lena Home, Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, Frankie Laine, Cara Williams, Jerry Colonna, Agnes Moorehead. Sammy Davis Jr., the Four Aces, the Slate Brothers, Peter Lorre, and something that looks suspiciously like a seven-year-old geisha girl...
...toast of the town. In Las Vegas. she turns out to be just a very expensive kind of digestif: she is expected to dance while the customers eat. Even more shockingly barbaric, she feels, is the mechanical monster she finds lurking in her boudoir-her own personal 25? slot machine that was installed, the management hastens to assure her, as a sign of especial esteem. Worst of all, the male population is made up mostly of gamblers, who are so busy losing money that they have no time to make girls. "There's no one," she sputters indignantly...