Beautiful People (1941); Jack
Douglas G. Wilson
douglas at NB.NET
Mon Aug 13 22:12:38 UTC 2001
> This is from the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, 28 May 1941, pg. 21, col. 6:
>
>_LaGuardia Insists Counsel_
> _to Citizens Budget Group_
> _Spoke of Getting "Jack"_
>(...)
> In this letter the Mayor quoted Mr. Riegelman as having said that
> sensational statements, whether true or false, had to be issued every so
> often to "pep up your customers" and "get the jack."
>
>(Maybe not the same "jack"--ed.)
This is "jack" = "money", I think.
[As in the proverb, "All work and no play makes jack." (^_^)]
-- Doug Wilson
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