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Frances Blakeslee's Hildy provides the best moments of the frenzied dash around the city which follows. A female cabby who run her man down, Miss Blakeslee extracts every heaping tablespoon of suggestiveness from "I Can Cook Too," and fills her role with splendidly wrought bits. Miss Turnstiles (Mary Ellen Klee) suffers from one of the handicaps of the boy-loses-girl gambit: she's lost for most of the second act. It's a shame, too, as she is a superb a dancer with a pleasant (if small) voice...
...tablespoon instant minced onion...
...tablespoon butter...
Bandit-beating is not the simple business it once was. In the early days of the slots, the process was called "spooning," and it had nothing whatever to do with June or moon. A spooner would simply slip the handle of a tablespoon into the coin-return opening, wedge open the little trap door, insert his coin in the slot, and pull the lever. Down through the trap door would fall the take. One imaginative cheater was caught using a fine homemade machine tool with detachable heads, one each for nickel, dime, quarter, half-dollar and dollar slots...
...chieftains' bidding, 215,504 men, women and children trooped down to rally points where the doctors were waiting with jugs of ice-cold Chat. In some cases, team members squirted the virus-containing liquid into the tribesmen's mouths; usually, they let them take it from a tablespoon. There were no ill effects, and team members have high hopes that they averted a lot of polio...