Word: slotted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fastest-growing business is the slot-machine industry, which has increased tenfold since 1929, employs...
Captain Bill Coleman is a fixture at right defense, the promising Junior Sherm Gray, is being groomed to fill the other defensive slot. Bob Gorham and Greeley Summers are next in line for the blue-line jobs...
...Lowry and Chub Peabody are scrapping it out at the other guard slot, with Lowry doing most of the A team work. But it is a toss-up as to whether Lowry or Peabody will start against the Cadets. Peabody seems to have the edge in aggressiveness, while Lowry's experience helps to weight down the green line...
...Your Life unquestionably is. Out of a warm heart and a lively fancy Saroyan has written a paean to the essential goodness in life and people, a chant of love for the scorned & rejected. He has filled a San Francisco waterfront dive with prostitutes, sailors, cops, bums, drunks, slot-machine addicts, hoofers, young men in love, old men in rags. Some of these people are as touching as his battered Arab who plays an ancient, mournful wail upon a harmonica. Some are as uproariously funny as his prodigious, W. C. Fieldsy liar (Len Doyle) who bursts on the stage with...
...live-&-let-live. That feeling gives his play warmth, faith, also a measure of falseness. For to exorcise evil and unhappiness, Saroyan has to make the world cockeyed and alcoholic, and all its outcasts childlike and starry-eyed. His mushy idealism turns his play, with its god from the slot machine, into a fairy tale. Saroyan takes the bread & butter of existence and smears it with...