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Show Business Nobody Knows 141: One of the bad boys, a mobster named ‘Pretty’Amberg, had a fondness for puncturing people’s faces with a fork.at bad boy, n.
Show Business Nobody Knows 141: One of the bad boys, a mobster named ‘Pretty’Amberg, had a fondness for puncturing people’s faces with a fork. Show Business Nobody Knows 400: ‘Mr. Wilson, I’m a super groupie! I’m the best ball in town’.at ball, n.4
(ref. to 1938) Show Business Nobody Knows 159: B.G. [Benny Goodman] believes that [...] January 16, 1938, was the first time integrated musicians ever appeared on the concert stage in New York. He wasn’t yet thirty years old when he walked out on stage [...] and lifted his clarinet to start the blasting.at blast, v.1
Show Business Nobody Knows 40: Colonel Parker, Elvis’s manager, carved out an equivalent or better deal than even Barbra [Streisand] got because he’s been around those curves more years than has Barbra’s manager, Marty Ehrlichman.at go around the block (v.) under block, n.8
Show Business Nobody Knows 124: ‘Come on, Abe,’ one of the hoods said. ‘Let’s get it the fuck over!’ ‘What great brain dreamed this up?’ Abe asked them.at brain, n.1
Show Business Nobody Knows 10: We printed a brief about it anyway—the first news of the courtship of Rainier and Grace.at brief, n.1
Show Business Nobody Knows 124: Abe had feared he would be erased some day. [...] But doing it this way was a rougher deal than he’ d expected.at deal, n.1
Show Business Nobody Knows 137: ‘This guy does things with two girls, and then there’s two guys with two guys [...] I coulda got picked up for going to a dirty show! ’.at dirty, adj.
Show Business Nobody Knows 330: une Carter is also the girl who got Johnny Cash to quit taking pills: not narcotics but ‘ups and downs’—the sleepers and the stimulants.at down, n.5
Show Business Nobody Knows 4: [E]ach major hotel must ‘win’ $100,000 a night to keep going. If the ‘casino drop’ isn’t $700,000 a week, the hotel is in trouble.at drop, n.1
Show Business Nobody Knows 125: [H]e was getting to be a nuisance to somebody in the mob, and he had to be dumped.at dump, v.
Show Business Nobody Knows 124: Abe had feared he would be erased some day. It was one of the rules of the mobster game.at erase, v.
Show Business Nobody Knows 255: They [i.e the press] were planning to fold up on her. But s [i.e. Lauren Bacall] he wasn’t, and they didn’t.at fold up, v.
(ref. to mid-1950s) Show Business Nobody Knows 2: The first person I heard utter the vulgarism ‘Las Vegas fuck you money’ was Red Buttons [...] What were his plans? I asked. He told me simply, ‘I’m going to go to work in Las Vegas and get some of that ’fuck you’ money’.at fuck-you money (n.) under fuck-you, adj.
Show Business Nobody Knows 9: ‘Leslie Smothers,’ ‘Uggams Smothers,’ and the Smothers Sister—such tags didn’t help—didn’t have the zing and the ginger and the bite to follow the Smothers.at ginger, n.1
Show Business Nobody Knows 369: [A] ‘group grope,’sort of a minor orgy, a community feel, with everybody hand-massaging everybody while piled together naked on the floor.at group grope, n.
Show Business Nobody Knows 2: Tourists often hunt out casinos in downtown Las Vegas, where thy believe the slot machines will be ‘looser.’ But usually the word ‘looser’ changes to ‘loser’.at loose, adj.
Show Business Nobody Knows 137: One of the mob places was the old Greenwich Village Inn in Sheridan Square [...] It was operated strictly as a front ‘to keep some of the boys working in a legitimate business’.at mob, adj.
Show Business Nobody Knows 125: he’ d only been in jail once [...] for beating up a cheating numbers writer who deserved it.at numbers, the, n.
Show Business Nobody Knows 125: They were on top of him again over the jury fixing.at on, prep.
Show Business Nobody Knows 1: Then there was Europe, where I traveled [...] laying pipelines to get the first word on Grace Kelly’s baby.at lay pipes (v.) under pipe, n.2
Show Business Nobody Knows 10: At El Morocco the ultimate snobbism was provided by the ‘wrong side of the room"—the area beyondthe dance floor that divided the room. It was nicknamed Siberia.at Siberia, n.
Show Business Nobody Knows 42: When the house was winning $100,000 a night, this thievery wasn’t difficult as long as the skimmers were not too numerous or too greedy.at skimmer, n.2
Show Business Nobody Knows 42: ‘[S]kimming’—the process of removing a few thousand in the [casino] counting room before turning in the ‘final figures’.at skimming, n.
Show Business Nobody Knows 182: Dr. Harry Martin [was] lying on the floor, quite ‘under the weather’.at under the weather (adj.) under weather, n.
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