Word: stork
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing the U.S. troops were learning was a healthy respect for the British. Said one American who watched the action at Fondouk: "I wish that those American strategists who beef about the British in the Stork Club could have breathed the dust of this valley today...
Henry won $25,000. The Beau, who fights for fun and a fee from a syndicate of Stork Club sportsmen who handle his winnings, got two flashy new suits, a hat and a new pair of shoes...
...were eating raw fish and seaweed in their gathering places in Shinjuku and Mukojima, where, I am certain, Mr. Byas did not have the interesting fortune to enter upon the conclaves and hear the plots. The locale and character are as different as Sherman Billingsley's Stork Club and a Harlem honky-tonk marijuana parlor...
From duty off the coast of Africa came Navy Lieut. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., turning up in Manhattan's plush Stork Club with wife Ethel du Pont Roosevelt and Boatswain Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt...
...board meetings, appeared in a body every time Little Beau fought, trooped to his dressing room to hobnob with the fight mob. But Beau Jack was no palooka. Sticking to his battle-royal style, he licked 40 of his 45 opponents. And with Wergeles' incessant trumpeting about his Stork Club backers, Beau Jack became famed as the Stork Club champ. He made so much dough that Manager Wergeles recently repaid the syndicate every dollar they invested. Even the Beau has $10,000 in a trust fund...