10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NICKEL-IN-THE-SLOT MACHINE»
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nickel-in-the-slot machine in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
nickel-in-the-slot machine and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
King of
the Slots: William "Si" Redd
He brought back with him a nickel-in-the-slot machine, and considerable sport
has been the result of continually dropping of nickels in the slot.”11 The slot
machine had found its natural home at last. For the next eighty-five years, poker
slots ...
2
Mr. Dooley:
In the Hearts of His Countrymen
THE SKIRTS OF CHANCE. The people of Bridgeport are not solicitous of modern
improvements, and Mr. Dooley views with distaste the new and garish. But he
consented to install a nickel-in-the-slot machine in his tavern last week, and it
was ...
3
How to Win Millions Playing
Slot Machines!: ...Or Lose Trying
Seriously, though, "slot machine" is actually short for "nickel in-the-slot machine."
These were games of chance located in bars and on street corners around San
Francisco at the dawn of the 20th cen tury. (At night, too.) It was another one of ...
4
The Delta Blues: We Have Come A Long Way
I decided to put that nickel in the slot machine. I really wasn't expecting to win
anything; I just wanted to do something with that nickel. Out of the slot machine
came all of this money. I turned and started running but the lady in the store said,
“No, ...
5
The Emergence of Cinema:
The American Screen to 1907
In February the Automatic Phonograph Exhibition Company was incorporated to "
manufacture, lease, use, and sell a nickel-in-the-slot machine by means of which
the dropping of a coin in the slot will operate a mechanism which will caust a ...
6
Hidden History of Lewiston, Idaho
Ordinance 234 was passed by the city council on September 5, 1898, to license
any businesses operating “a nickel in the slot machine.” The law prohibited the
paying out of money from these machines without a license. That doesn't sound ...
7
Bulletin, Problems of Drug Dependence: Report of
the ...
(The nickel in the slot machine, the initiation rite, etc). The ordinates, time scale
and the character of the rewards and penalties will depend on the particular
seduction and individual; e.g., the drug, cocaine, may have a time scale of
perhaps 36 ...
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Problems of Drug Dependence, 1969
8
REVEREND MARK MATTHEWS (cl)
"The Methodist Church is a ponderous ecclesiastical drop-a-nickel-in-the-slot
machine. The Presbyterian Church is a beaver hat historical society," proclaimed
Matthews. "The Baptist Church is an individual plumbing shop. The Episcopal ...
9
And Then It Was Winter: Went Away a Boy and Returned a Man, ...
Went Away a Boy and Returned a Man, Volume Two Loy VanNatter. dime that
went into my pocket, and to put one nickel in the slot machine and lose it was
cause for me to want to rip the one-armed bandit from the wall. It was the next
morning ...
A nickel-in-the-slot machine, although a gambling device and expressly brought
within the purview of the earlier gambling statutes, is not a lottery, within Const,
art. 4, § 24, declaring that no lotteries shall be authorized in the state; and hence
...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NICKEL-IN-THE-SLOT MACHINE»
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nickel-in-the-slot machine is used in the context of the following news items.
This Day in Music, August 19: Gimme Five for the Jukebox
The predecessor of the modern jukebox was the nickel-in-the-slot machine. In 1889, Louis Glass and William S. Arnold placed a coin-operated ... «The Morton Report, Aug 11»
