Word: hobnobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beau Jack's patrons expected nothing but fun for their money. They held board meetings, appeared in a body every time Little Beau fought, trooped to his dressing room to hobnob with the fight mob. But Beau Jack was no palooka. Sticking to his battle-royal style, he licked 40 of his 45 opponents. And with Wergeles' incessant trumpeting about his Stork Club backers, Beau Jack became famed as the Stork Club champ. He made so much dough that Manager Wergeles recently repaid the syndicate every dollar they invested. Even the Beau has $10,000 in a trust...
While Marva likes to hobnob with the Negro upper crust in Manager Roxborough's palatial French Provincial house, Joe prefers the company of his old pals. A few days after he won the world's championship from Jim Braddock in 1937-while Negro society was burning wires to get him to their salons-Joe was in Detroit, sitting on a dirty curbstone, eating apples and arguing with the boys about his prowess as a softball player...
...successful was Selfridge & Co., Ltd. that its owner was able to buy ducal mansions, hobnob with London sophisticates. So wild was "King" Selfridge's personal spending that he had to found a holding company-The Gordon Selfridge Trust, Ltd.-with his Selfridge & Co. common as assets to raise ?1,100,000 of quick money. By 1933 he was some $1,000,000 in debt again. Then Selfridge & Co. headed for trouble...
...pushed to Guatemala in five and a half hours. Same afternoon he was in San Jose, 24 hours earlier than if he had taken Pan Am's roundabout route from Brownsville, Tex. After delivering the papers to various Central American politicos, Yerex stayed to hobnob with Central American cronies, try to bolster TACA prestige...
...piled up. To help lug it, Pan Am this week will step up its transatlantic service (New York to Lisbon) from two to three runs a week. Bolstered by an extra plane crew, transatlantic pilots, radiomen, mechanics will lie over between trips at Lisbon, may there hobnob with British, French and Italian airline men, all operating across Europe from neutral Portugal...