Word: tonk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members of the Porgy troupe hoped for caviar and good company. They were provided with yoghurt, raspberry pop and the supervision of goodwill-goons from the Soviet Ministry of Culture. The Russians were strong on culture, and they stopped, as nye kulturnyi, a game of tonk (a variation of rummy) that had been going more or less continuously since the company played Buenos Aires. "Old Squareville!" said an embittered American. "Home for dead cats...
Book Gresham's evil power is opposed by Brother Cox, the "webbed faced" preacher who tries to close the valley honky-tonk but loses his "holy war agin sin" when Book frames him for "a sight of carrying-on'' with a no-good girl. Fate Laird takes on too much when he gives Bodoc a job and takes the preacher's side against the courthouse-cathouse gang. Laird's son Clay shoots a mean deputy and is convicted of murder in Book Gresham's court. But in the end a sort of moral truce...
...Buren Street in Chicago. Brother Stanislaus came from the Polish army and five years in a German prison camp. Brother Bartholomew came from the retail clothing trade in Chicago, where he was known to fellow salesmen as "Two-Pants Murphy." And Brother Matthew came from the honky-tonk world of red-hot, blue-air, 4-in-the-morning jazz; his name was Boyce Brown...
...Uncle Will, for instance -that's his gamblin' and killin' uncle. In a 15-hour poker session Uncle Will won the Whitehorse Saloon and helped the former owner forget his troubles by plugging him with his pearl-handled revolver. The Whitehorse was the hottest honky-tonk in Silverlode. a raffish overnight boom town. Across the way lay Adenville, the Godfearing Mormon settlement. Caught between conflicting loyalties. Mama and Papa stayed true to each other, their children, and the best in each other's faith...
...Dragnet-has directed and starred in, is pretty much the same old dum-de-dum-dumfounding stuff, but set in ragtime. Webb has cast himself this time as a sort of Prohibition era Lord Jim with a growl machine, a cornet player in a honky-tonk who caves in to a protection racketeer (Edmond O'Brien) and has to keep running from his conscience with the racketeer riding on his billfold. At last he runs into Janet Leigh, a flapper with more visible flap than the censor generally allows, and he flips back to normal. Yet, at the fadeout...