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(And that's why you should never carry an automatic in your handbag. A small revolver, like a Colt Pocket Positive, is much safer.)
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In my three-plus decades of living in NYC, the "should Brooklyn succeed" question comes up periodically. Only from memory, the big problem is, and maybe it's changed with Brooklyn's growing wealth of the past two decades, it's the taxes paid by Manhattan's wealthy business and residential districts that supports the social services Brooklyn uses, so succeeding is, in reality, not feasible.
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Members of Congress will be issued "X" cards, allowing unlimited purchase of gasoline once fuel rationing goes into effect in the District of Columbia and seventeen eastern states on May 15th. An Office of Price Administration spokesman in charge of registering congressmen noted that the unlimited ration is for "official use" only. Members of Congress owning two cars will be given an "A" card for the second vehicle, and each card may only be used for the specific car noted on the registration form.
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Hardship for thee, not for me. Nothing changes.
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("Chu Chu?")
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Google provided no answers. I'm guessing it's a rich-person's nickname. Sounds like that cutesy stuff the well-to-do did back then.
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Queens bookmaker Frank A. Erickson, often in trouble with city authorities, today agreed to return $42,500 in horse race bets lost by a disbarred attorney who embezzled the money from his clients. The settlement stems from a Court of Appeals ruling that a bettor has a right to recover losses from a professional gambler by going to court. The $42,500 is part of a total of $193,620 lost by John A. Austin, disbarred lawyer, between 1932 and 1936, and will be returned to Austin's former clients. Austin served three and a half years in Sing Sing Prison on a grand larceny conviction, and upon his release moved to California, where he is now an executive of an aircraft corporation. Two years ago, a Supreme Court ruling absolved Erickson of any responsibility for repaying the losses, but the Court of Appeals reversed that ruling and ordered a new trial.
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How is a Supreme Court ruling absolved by a Court of Appeals, unless the Supreme Court was State and the Court of Appeals was Federal. Either way, what BS - arrest the bookie and fine him, but that a better can sue to get the money he/she lost back is garbage. Right Nick?
"It's unAmerican!"
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("Such talent was unsuspected here???" roars Sally, as Stella the Cat flees for safety under the stove and Joe spills a glass of milk in his own lap. "BY YOU MAYBE!!!"
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The Billy Conn story would never hold up as fiction; it's only believable because it's true.
Poor Joe has to think, "couldn't they have just kept Corscarart, he's only one player?"
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(Maybe Sparky will make a surprise crossover reappearance in "Invisible Scarlett O'Neil." They're made for each other!)
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One of my main goals in life is to never go to prison, but one imagines seeing one's girl would trump hanging out with the guys on the list of immediate things to do when released. You'd think you wouldn't even need a list to know that.
I'd miss Sparky, but not that much, if he's out of the paper, yet I feel the Eagle owes us an update one way or the other.
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Did Punj just threaten to decapitate Sandy? Is that in his contract?
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"What!? My agent said this was going to be a career-making storyline for me. Damn him and his 15%. He's fired if I get written out."
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Ryan, you dawg. She doesn't mean THAT kind of relaxation.
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Or does she? She's feeling jealous of Normandie and might want to remind Pat that not every ride at the amusement park provides the same enjoyment.
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Rent a car? DON'T YOU KNOW THERE'S A WAR ON?
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Hope he checked if the gun was loaded.
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He gets a big kick out of a fine hunk of mechanism. Sorry, Nina.
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Of the "Gasoline Alley" crew, Wilmer was always the one I thought would go in for a fine hunk of mechanism.
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