| Description |
1 online resource (186 pages) : illustrations (some colour). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Canadian Publishers Collection
|
| Contents |
1 The best way to not get hit by a baseball -- 2 Sweet Lilies' advice -- 3 A gold coin -- 4 Mister Orpen -- 5 Sack ' s two dollars -- 6 The layoff man -- 7 Outward order and decency -- 8 The race wire -- 9 Annenberg -- 10 An expert on horses -- 11 Marci -- 12 Costello -- 13 The only game in town -- 14 Gentlemen ' s agreement -- 15 Omniapraesumuntur rite -- 16 Big Gangy Cohen gets out -- 17 Sh-Boom -- 18 We may be related -- 19 Portraits by Marci -- 20 Heaven -- Afterword. |
| Summary |
In the first half of the 20th century, Toronto prided itself on being 'Toronto the Good'. But Davy the Punk's Toronto was tantalizingly bad. In the 1930s Davy Bossin was known in the gambling underworld as 'Davy the Punk'. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Bossin, Bob.
|
|
Bossin, Davy, 1905-1963.
|
|
Folk singers -- Canada -- Biography.
|
|
Folk singers. |
|
Canada. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
|
| Subject |
Bookmakers (Gambling) -- Canada -- Biography.
|
|
Bookmakers (Gambling) |
|
Fathers and sons -- Canada -- Biography.
|
|
Fathers and sons. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
Autobiographies.
|
|
Autobiographies.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version 9780889843691 |
| ISBN |
9780889848061 (electronic book) |
|
0889848068 (electronic book) |
|
9780889843691 |
|
0889843694 |
|
