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...sneers Andy. "It's one of these here buildings before they come along and cover up the steel with a lot of crap." The role of Andy is capably played by William Haade, 33, who before his appearance in Iron Men never set foot on a stage in his life. Mr. Kaade is a crack steelworker. Boss of his gang, he put up steel on Manhattan's Barbizon-Plaza and Pierre Hotels, Farmer's Loan & Trust Co., and Bank of Manhattan buildings. River side Church, Lincoln Hospital. He is a member of the International Association of Bridge...
...usual, bibbing Legionaries were up to their traditional tricks-stopping automobiles and street cars for "inspection," tossing water from hotel windows, turning in false fire alarms, smashing plate glass windows, halting traffic with mid-street card and crap games, poking female pedestrians with electrically-charged canes. But, because of the Legionaries' advancing years, the presence of their wives and a curt preliminary warning from Commander Ray Murphy to "act your age," such highjinks were far less frequent than at past conventions. Serious members were sobered by knowledge that its 18th convention marked a critical milestone in the Legion...
Hoople connoisseurs particularly admired Cartoonist Ahern's extravagant poolroom slang, in which slow race horses are called "turf turtles" or "land crabs," a crap game is described as a "few knuckles of dice...
When grey-eyed, Mississippi-born young Mark Ethridge returned from the War to his newshawking job on the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph, he shortly lost all his pay in a crap game and, as a gesture of extreme indigence, showed up for work in his Navy uniform. Such traditional didoes did not impede Mark Ethridge's progress on the paper. Soon he was city editor, later managing editor...
...crap game big drunken Crown kills Robbins and over the corpse all Catfish Row bows before death, keening and shrieking its laments, tossing coins into a saucer to assure a burial safe from medical students. Gershwin's choruses are richly eloquent then, as they are later on when a hurricane shivers the tenements and the Negroes herd together like terror-stricken savages, hearing what they think is God. knocking at the door. Critics roundly approved such moments which had the surge of a powerful musical drama. But :here were bristling arguments over many of the set songs for which...