Word: stumblebums
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Madden might still have been a stumblebum had he not won 200 "clams" shooting craps one night in a waterfront dive. Determined "to quit being a uncouth bum," he bought a case of whiskey and a second-hand cash register, opened a speakeasy in Manhattan's famed Fifties. One night, after some of his customers had got into a skull-cracking brawl that brought the cops swarming in. Barkeep Madden, plenty irate, took his pencil from behind his ear. poured out a piece of his mind, pasted it on the mirror behind his bar: "Just for your information...
City for Conquest, like We Who Are Young (TIME, Sept. 30), borrows this technique to point up the clamoring struggle for existence which supposedly typifies Manhattan. This time Philosopher Craven wears a beard and the shaggy rags of a stumblebum, wanders in and out of the lives of the characters, seeing all, knowing all, interpreting...