Word: taker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...onetime Secretary of the Interior, convicted bribe-taker, grandson of a co-founder of the Disciples of Christ (Camp-bellites). was visited by priests, baptized a Roman Catholic...
...Taker...
...figured that we had about enough to pay off the hotel's deputy sheriff, who had been following us for six weeks. We had just ordered a big dinner when the manager came running up to tell us that our credit was no longer good, as the ticket taker had eloped with the tattoed lady between the twenty-first and the twenty-ninth encores, taking our night's receipts with...
...makes good and her overconfident lover, a sidewalk concessionaire named Nicky Nelson (Jack Oakie), who absents himself during" the middle of the story to facilitate her career. Best song: "With My Eyes Wide Open, I'm Dreaming." Best joke: the reply of Nicky Nelson's ticket taker when he asks her to go back and wait at their hotel...
...tied to one end. Mr. Cook plays a few bars, then slaps an attendant across the back of the neck with the bladder. The attendant turns a crank and a small carousel begins to revolve. One of the riders seizes a cardboard milk bottle, breaks it over the ticket-taker's head. In surprise, the ticket-taker heaves a handful of coins on the stage. Some roustabouts who have been holding Dave Chasen above a glass tank of water, dive for the coins. Chasen falls into the tank and sounds the last note of the tune with an automobile...