Word: bumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happy. A well-rounded starlet's appearance on the screen brought cries of "Back it up!" Then the operator would oblige by rewinding it and showing the female again. When any heroine displayed signs of falling in love the audience implored: "Don't run off with that bum! Wait till I get home!" One night, men of Headquarters Battalion got so mad at Charles Boyer they threw coral rocks at the screen...
...machine a year, brought in an annual profit of $3,000,000. But in 1934. Mayor Fiorello La Guardia ordered the machines seized, personally banged up dozens of them with a sledge hammer while photographers recorded his prowess. He also called fellow Italian and longtime admirer Frank Costello a bum, a tinhorn gambler, and a punk. That was the end of Tru-Mint and of Costello's regard for the Little Flower...
...Signo. In Washington, police were looking for a tall (6 ft.) man in his seventies, wearing faded blue overalls, who had passed more than a dozen bum checks all signed with...
...injury situation was somewhat brighter yesterday. John Coan reported in uniform (sans pads) and exercised for a while, still favoring his bum right knee. Chief Bender, limping slightly, was in full uniform. He jogged around from time to time, took part in a couple of plays against the dummies and spent the rest of the afternoon ambling up and down behind the squad, as if he could hardly wait to resume regular contact duty...
Power of the Pen. In Cleveland, Roy Sparmon, in jail awaiting trial on forgery charges, faced three more similar charges when officials caught him passing bum checks to buy himself cigarettes and magazines. In Roanoke, Va., a few days after M. E. Lisic was released from jail, police rearrested him on charges of forging a check to pay his $5 fine...