Word: crapping
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...should see the Scotchmen running around developing film." The real show, however, was for the Yanks, and he knew what they wanted: "Were the soldiers at the last camp happy to see me! They actually got down on their knees. What a spectacle! What a tribute! What a crap game...
...always, the movie is not as good as the Broadway show, nor does it rank with the last all-negro production, "Green Pastures". The whole think is, roughly, about the conversion of "Little Joe" from a "no-good-crap shooter" to a "soldier of the Lord." In more detail, it included some very entertaining sequences of hell, and of the angels fighting with Satan's men for Little Joe's questionable soul...
...doggedly through St. Mihiel and the Argonne, spiked a panic when German artillery once drew a bead on his battery, lost only one soldier killed and one wounded, was promoted to major. On the ship back from France his men took a cut out of all crap games, bought him a monstrous loving cup four feet high and big enough to hold ten gallons...
...fifth grade." When still a boy, he went with his father to Alaska, where they "expected to pick up gold in a pail." After a few gleamless months, the father rushed home to a dying child and left Sid with $250, which he promptly lost in a crap game. He picked up the concession for selling newspapers from the States - buying them for 18?, selling them for a dollar. He sold the first paper for $50 to the late, great and witty confidence man, Wilson Mizner, only to see Mizner charge 500 illiterate miners 50? apiece to read them...
Cruel & Unusual. In Kansas City, Officer Tom Coates broke up a crap game in a jail cell full of prisoners who had just been arrested for shooting craps...