Word: teller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last day of last year an agent of Manhattan underwriters Blyth & Co. strode into Chicago's First National Bank, nipped a check for $4,555,909 at the wide-eyed receiving teller. Thus did Milwaukee's widowed, 75-year-old Ella M. Kearney and her two daughters get hard cash for their 50% stock interest in Kearney & Trecker Corp., maker of 30-35% of all U.S. milling machines...
...like the author's prologue, brilliantly done by David Mayer '42, combine with acting, directing, and staging to produce an atmosphere and a play that is worthy of as much enthusiasm as that of Lorca's villagers, when they gather 'round to hear the scarlet-caped, feather-capped story-teller...
...announced he would wed her, got the news of the elopement while she waited for Jakie in a nightclub. Said the ex-fiancée impetuously: "Jakie can have his Lemmon. . . . I'm going to look for a job." Said the bride: wandering Jakie (ex-sailor, ex-pilot, teller of tall tales, lover of tattoos) would also look for a job-in Hollywood. Said bride's mother: "It's good to know that Lenore will settle down." Then the law tagged Jakie on two rubber-check charges. He skipped his date with the judge and forfeited...
...their hours were spent in intensive business. Churchill, in spite of his lisp (which he suppresses when he makes a speech), is a superb story teller, with an irony that eats like slow acid. The President, utterly fluent, is an engaging conversationalist. Two such men do not get quickly to the subject of their business...
Afterwards there was carousing in the Teller House, wide-open gambling elsewhere. Lucius Beebe, the Herald Tribune's syndicated exquisite, was among those present, at one time running about in stocking feet, exclaiming in an interested manner that he had lost his underpants...