Wake me up when Kirby dies; Broker than the Ten Commandments

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BROKER THAN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

BROKER THAN THE TEM COMMANDMENTS--47 Google hits, 13 Google Groups  hits

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_Straight  From the Trumpet's Mouth; SATCHMO: My Life in New Orleans. By 
Louis  Armstrong. Illustrated. 240 pp. New York: Prentice-Hall. $3.50. Trumpet's  
Mouth _ 
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82) 
By CLEVELAND AMORY. New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Oct  
10, 1954. p. BR7 (2 pages) 
First page: Some of these, Louis tells us, hit the big time with  "Roast 
Beef" (tuxedo) and "frebies" (free meals), others are nothing but  "poor boy" 
sandwiches and were "broker than the Ten  Commandments;...

2.  
_Louis  Armstrong, Jazz Trumpeter and Singer, Dies; Louis Armstrong, the Jazz 
 Trumpeter and Singer, Dies in His Home at 71 _ 
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By  ALBIN KREBS. New York Times (1857-Current  file). New York, N.Y.: Jul 7, 
1971. p. 1 (2 pages) 
Pg. 41: "I was foolin' around with some tough ones," Mr.. Armstrong  recalled 
in 1969. "Get paid a little money, and a beeline for on of them  gambling 
houses. Two hours, man, and I was a broke cat, broker than the  Ten Commandments."

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Saturday, July 13, 1968 _Levittown,_ 
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ents)      ...remember when he was broker  THAN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS Heart 
transplants  were.....LBJ may have been less a gag target THAN usual. had an  
awful lot of somebody..
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1968 _Zanesville,_ 
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he was broker  THAN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS Heart transplants  were.....In show 
on CBS TV brought in some more THAN slightly  suggestive material..
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Friday, August 09, 1974 _Levittown,_ 
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ents)      ...one to Flip Wil- I was  broker THAN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.' a 
mighty  good of what.....pursuit of power is more important THAN civil  rights 
and THE welfare of a..

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January 22, 1997 _Frederick,_ 
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...or how THEy're 4  broker THAN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.' biie-GMC  dealer Sam 
C.....eating briers" or how THEy're -broker THAN  THE TEN CommandmentFor Po.veil. 
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_Frederick,_ 
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how THEy're 'broker THAN  THE TEN whole mess" of friends and..

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WAKE ME UP WHEN KIRBY DIES    

WAKE ME UP WHEN KIRBY DIES--5 Google hits, 0 Google Groups hits

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_Gold  Rush Women_ (http://www.sierrafoothillmagazine.com/women.html) 
... purposes, was an English actor  so noted for his dramatic death throes 
that a phrase
coined by bored  theatre-goers, “Wake me up when Kirby dies,”  became ... 
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_San Francisco  History - Strolling on Sunday Afternoons_ 
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...  Such stories of stage life he could tell! Such color of the old Bowery  
Theater!
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... Waiting List Wait Out Waitress  Wait-See Wait Tell Next Year Wait Up 
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...  was a Civil War veteran who always bedded down in a pile of old 
newspapers  and,
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Los Angeles Times (1886-Current  File). Los Angeles, Calif.: Dec 12, 1898. p. 
6 (1 page) 
The San Francisco papers, in speaking of the death of the pioneer actress,  
Sarah Stark Thorne, mentions James Stark as her first husband, which is quite  
incorrect. The lady was three times married, her first husband being the 
famous  Bowery actor of fifty years ago, Hudson Kirby. Out of his name grew the 
popular  newsboys' shibboleth of "Wake me up when Kirby dies."

_THREE  OLD-TIME THEATRES._ 
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THOMAS W. PITTMAN.. New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Jun 
22,  1902. p. 7 (1 page)   
Kirby, one of the then leading tragedians, frequently played there in  
National anf patriotic plays, and during his engagements it was the common  saying 
of the town, "Wrap me in an American flag and wake me up when Kirby  dies," as 
he was regarded as great in his heroic and prolonged death  scenes.

       4. _In  the Days of "Dese, Dem, an' Dose"; Mr. Harlow Writes a 
Fascinating  Full-Throated Chronicle of the Old Bowery. The Bowery _ (http://
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By HOLLISTER NOBLE. New York Times  (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Jul 
26, 1931. p. BR3 (2 pages)  

First page: Judsob Kirby appeared in "Six Degrees of Crime" and grew so  
famous for his death scenes that a request of the tired business man of the  
period to "Wake Me Up When Kirby Dies" became a bon mot for  years.