Word: slotted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shoulder-bumping mass of humanity which surged its way into a Brooklyn subway station one evening last week was Oscar Winheld. Oscar Winheld, 65, an unemployed bricklayer, had been looking for work all day. Someone had given him the only nickel he had. He dropped it into a turnstile slot. He walked toward the landing platform. A special officer of the subway company laid his hand on Oscar Winheld's shoulder...
...might tell your other magazine FORTUNE that there are not three slot machine gambling devices in Buckingham Palace. The . King and Queen cannot of course defend themselves against such nonsensical assertions but I take the liberty of defending them. The late King Edward used to gamble disgracefully at cards but King George is opposed to all gambling...
Visitors at the sea lion pool in London's Zoo may now drop a sixpence in a slot to obtain the following result: a newly-devised tower, equipped with traveling chain and trigger, sounds a klaxon, hurls out a fat herring to make the sea lions snort and scramble...
...chose the things they liked best, several bottles of confiscated liquor. Next they chose the things which they needed most: 8500 from the safe, rifles, pistols, a machine-gun, 500 rounds of ammunition. Then they chose the things which would be most helpful to them in business: 20 seized slot machines valued at $125 and containing $500 in nickels & dimes. With these articles neatly packed in their truck, the Crookston crooks drove away. Hours later the jailers & friend were let out of a padded cell by a woman prisoner who wanted to know what it was all about...
...evening last week sat a nude young woman of considerable charm, safe behind a barrier of chicken wire. For $1 anyone could go in, sit behind a drawing board for ten minutes and try or pretend to sketch her. Elsewhere in the Drake that evening were peep shows, slot machines, bars, roulette tables, smart shops, fortune telling booths, a gangplank and reproduction of one side of the lie de France. Milling around in costumes that tried earnestly to look bohemian were 2,500 Chicago socialites and celebrities. Fresh from welcoming Governor Roosevelt to town, Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak arrived...