Word: stockport
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...first person whom Ezekiel Cobb (Lloyd) meets in Stockport is the town's political boss (George Barbier), searching for a dummy candidate to run for mayor on a reform ticket. It seems to Boss Mayo and his cronies that Ezekiel Cobb is naïve enough for their purposes. When they nominate him, he wanders into a night club with a cigaret-counter girl (Una Merkel), attracts constituents, first by frolicking with chorus girls, then by defending a newsboy who has been mistreated by his rival candidate (Alan Dinehart...
...Stockport, England, Walter Kynaston, a retired detective, showed friends a picture made of 8,000 canceled tramway tickets which had taken nine months to piece together. "That's how I amuse myself," said...