Word: shillings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Horatio Alger and went right through the Rover Boys.") And as a boy he got the idea that he would like to be a professional talker. "I dreamed about my name on an office door," he recalls. "Ted Husing, Commentator." After batting around in a dozen jobs, from carnival shill to real estate, Ted saw his dream come true. In 1924 he was hired as one of WJZ's first full-time announcers. He has been talking ever since...
...sharp? Do you merkle? Or are you shill-shocked?" are some of the questions on the Senior Album Poll which was distributed yesterday. Coles H. Phinizy '42, ex-president of the Lampoon, who made up the questions, ought to know the answers if anyone does...
...sharp," he revealed, is one skilled in playing pin-ball machines; "to merkle" is to be jubilant at your own misfortune, and "shill-shocked" refers to one who is conscience-bound not to put slugs in a juke...
...seldom leads with it. Around the Paramount lot he is known as "a hard man with a dollar." This affinity for cash reveals itself in many small ways. On Hollywood's Lakeside Golf Club, where he customarily spends Sundays, he lays his bets with the guile of a shill operating a shell game...