Word: takings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the cops take a flyer now & then. The morning after the Rodriguez raid, Mexico City's daily Novedades reported that some of the heaviest gaming in town had been going on in the offices of the Seventh Police Precinct...
Last fortnight, as Trastevere prepared for the first Feast of Us Others in a decade, the district's alert Communists saw a chance to step in & take over where the Fascists had left off. But the Communists underestimated the alertness of the opposition. While they were debating ways & means to raise money for the affair, the right wing E.N.A.L. (National Organization for Workers' Welfare) blandly announced that it would sponsor the show this year, promptly received a generous donation from the anti-Communist Il Giornale d'ltalia...
Many Hollywood stars are stagestruck. To fill their yearning for the feel of an old-fashioned stage, some cinemactors take an occasional fling at Broadway. Others settle for Eastern summer stock or the hopeful little theaters that spring up in & around Los Angeles. In the past two years so many have trod the boards of a high-school auditorium in La Jolla, Calif., 100 miles south of Hollywood, that it has become the nation's most star-studded summer theater...
...Mothers with crying children should be treated with the utmost courtesy and care . . . Say: 'I am very sorry, Ma'am, but I must ask you to take the little one to the rest room...
Chinese Jackpot. In 1933, with his factory grown to ten employees in bigger quarters adjoining the drugstore, Joyce decided to take a fling at playshoes. The trouble with playshoes, he thought, was that their flat soles made women look dumpy. He copied the elevated, platform-type slipper which the Chinese had worn for centuries, and brought out "wedgies." This time he hit the jackpot...