Word: poolroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even tiny Redwater, with a population increase from 150 to 1,500 in ten months, has become a place where a man can spend some of his money. It has six new restaurants, a poolroom and bowling alley, three movie theaters. It also has a spanking-new hotel and beer parlor, where business is so good the waiters refuse to serve less than two beers at a time to a customer. Near Leduc, Imperial has bought a 160-acre field and built a village for 900 families...
...wife, Sentoria, heard about it and came rushing down to take him home. But she couldn't keep him there-Jim strolled back to the poolroom for a while, then sauntered over to the Busy Bee for a cup of coffee. That was when the cops came. They hauled Jim to Waukegan jail and started talking. "All right, you black son-ofabitch, tell the truth," demanded one. "We know you done...
...played by Thelma Ritter and Luis Van Rooten); the dank, underground goings-on in the Dukes' basement club; the bits & pieces of broken-down humanity that cluster like flies around Selma's sidewalk soda stand. Especially good are the close-up studies of gratuitous violence: in the poolroom the Dukes brutally beat up a couple of outsiders; in the school manual training class the kids (armed with the crude guns they have been secretly making at their work benches) defy, bully and finally terrorize their teacher...
...about such big-city problems as labor unions, jails, and sewage (Arco now uses septic tanks). Other nearby towns caught the atomic fever, began figuring on their share of atomic prosperity. The mayor of Pocatello (pop. 30,000) expansively predicted a population of 100,000 in three years. A poolroom owner refused $70,000 for his place ("That's when two fools met," commented Idaho Congressman John Sanborn...
...began his journey in the strict Orthodox Jewish schools of Russia. He continued it in the public schools of New York City, after traveling steerage to the U.S., living during the whole trip on bread because the ship's food was not kosher. Later, he worked in a poolroom to get enough money to go through City College, finally was sent to Harvard on a scholarship. In 1902, he joined the City College faculty...