Word: slots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bandit in the House. In Phoenix, Ariz., Mrs. Geraldine McDonald asked police to remove a slot machine from a closet in her home, averred that her children were putting all their allowance money into it, and their stepfather, who owns the machine, refused to give the money back...
...children's TV. His real name is Bob Keeshan, and his secret is that he talks softly to the kids, tells them what makes the world tick, with the same fizzless, unexcited manner that NBC's Dave Garroway uses on their parents. (In the same time slot. Kangaroo consistently matches or beats Garroway in the Nielsen ratings...
...Those with any knowledge of the plot have usually acquired it through one of the dozen or so operatic versions, chiefly Nicolai's Merry Wives of Windsor, Verdi's Falstaff, or Vaughan Williams' Sir John in Love. But the directors were willing to gamble (or gambol); and their slot (or slut) machine has come up with three cherries--a winning combination that ought to keep the box office coffers filled and the audience coughers silent...
Dominique was given to making salades (trouble), to pouring into slot machines money that should have gone to Bill, even to talking of giving up her trade altogether. Among the more code-conscious of Paris' 9,000 prostitutes, the penalty for deserting a protector is severe: it can mean a 500,000-franc fine, underworld-enforced, or even the lifelong scar of the dreaded croix des vaches, a deep cross carved into the doxy's forehead. Bill had even more grandiose ideas of the code of the caïd. When Dominique told him that she could...
...have just returned from a vacation in the Dominican Republic. My husband listed his occupation as "Radio and TV"-and nobody followed us. We saw the troops drilling, the homes of all the Trujillo relatives and the poverty. However, contrary to your report, no one fixed the slot machines or the gambling tables in our favor. As Americans we find the doctrine of dictatorship hard to take under any circumstances, but we could not help noticing that our own Puerto Rico was embroiled in a violent telephone strike, with communications cut by unthinking "free" citizens, who apparently only know...