Word: transom
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...familiar sawed-off figure of Abie with his slick black hair, big nose, thick lips and mustache, cigaret and smoke rings, did not appear in the Graphic's strip. Instead there was this lettered dialog issuing from the transom of a door labelled "Z. Eppess. Plastic Surgeon...
...well, it appears....it must be, I have it straight from Winchell....and he knows about that sort of thing....just one more before the fish eggs....Winter Place you aay?....I don't think they'll let us....you'll remember last time....the artichokes right through the transom onto Nick Stuhl....yes and Stogie threw oysters in the electric fan....well perhaps....just one before the fish eggs....ah, don't be a snitface...
...friends in the hour of success and subsequently went blind drinking bad booze. At the end there is a suggestion that the blindness will not be permanent. Most important in the picture are the songs, and the best of them, soon to be heard from the loudspeaker in the transom of many a radio and phonograph store, are "Puttin' on the Ritz," "Vagabond Song," and "With You." Best shot: the Alice in Wonderland sequence...
...many reasons police wanted sly-faced, little 24-year-old Badman Nannery. A year ago he and his pal Edward ("Snake") Ryan escaped from Sing Sing by clambering through a transom in the prison kitchen, scaling the wall, swimming away down the Hudson river. Ryan was recaptured and returned to Sing Sing. From the underworld came word that Nannery has sworn to get Ryan out again...
...occasion by a Gloucester dory regatta on the River. The terms of this contest have not yet been cleared up but it is supposed that the opposing crews will row in the same direction starting from the Weeks Memorial Bridge. Robert Leader Lampoon has been engaged as superficial transom and slide greaser in charge of coaching operations. "Remain long in the water and don't shoot" are the warning words of this mentor...