Word: stokers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conversation Piece. Things might have gone along that way indefinitely if a nosy young vice squad sergeant named Charles Stoker hadn't got interested in Brenda's affairs. A tap was installed on Brenda's line and Stoker began to record some lively conversations. One was by another sergeant on the vice squad named Elmer Jackson, who called the city hall from Brenda's atelier. Another time Sergeant Jackson called to apologize to Brenda for a sheriffs' raid. Stoker reported his wiretap findings to a confidential aide of Chief of Police C. B. Horrall, then...
...months ago, however, a county grand jury got wind of the Stoker recordings. The whole story burst across every front page in town. Triumphantly released from jail for a grand jury appearance, Brenda swept in, neat and businesslike in a tailored suit and dark glasses, began to tell all. $50 per Girl. She minced no words. Ever since she had moved into the upper brackets of her profession, she said, she had been paying $50 a week to her old friend Sergeant Jackson for every girl in her employ. And, she added with a vengeful slap at her persecutor...
...Radio) is a tough little film about small-time prize fighters with big-time dreams, and the racketeers who make & break them. Into normal screening time, it crams 80 climactic minutes of the career of Heavyweight "Stoker" Thompson (Robert Ryan). At 35, Stoker needs only a couple of stiff jolts to the head to become a punch-drunk derelict. Unwittingly, he saves himself by refusing to throw a fight. When local racketeers have finished teaching him a lesson, Stoker's right fist is a broken mess and his fight career is ended once & for all. To his wife (Audrey...
...mere housewife can do, I guess, is put out [a] cry of distress and have an oil furnace in the new house she hopes to build, instead of the coal stoker she originally planned. I don't intend to struggle with John L. Lewis every spring-for spring comes once a year...
...most unusual translation was that of Leading Stoker Walter Edwards, formerly of the Royal Navy, to Civil Lord of the Admiralty. There he will sit among the senior admirals. Before he was elected to Parliament (1942), Stoker Edwards was on the dangerous Murmansk convoy run. Next time he boards a battleship officially, he will be piped over the side, pass between saluting side boys...