Ahmet had known Waxie Maxie from the days when he and Nesuhi were forming their collection, because Waxie Maxie (who had begun his business as a radio-repair shop) sold secondhand records, but by 1944 Waxie Maxie had begun to sell new releases by black artists, and in Maxie's shop Ahmet began to get a feel for contemporary black popular music.
Well, one of the security guards on the set was an old fireman who had been around in the glory days of the real Slapsy Maxie's when the real Mickey would frequent the club with his entourage.
Tells about the change in Maxie, the bartender, who used to laugh at the customers horse play, now he is dressed like a soda clerk and people call him a sour-puss.
Beautiful and intelligent, Maxie loved the cultural arts of NYC.
All the pushcart peddlers (and their de-facto leader, Maxie Hammerman, the king of pushcart repair) are modest, honest, and reasonable people who care for their customers and their city.
Nancy Ross was hastened to an even speedier exit at Angelo & Maxie's, the steakhouse on Park Avenue South.
The violent, high-velocity stories told by Mr. O'Byrne's character, Maxie, recall the sinister monologues of Conor McPherson ("The Good Thief," "The Weir") and Mark O'Rowe ("Howie the Rookie").
Janek played the bugle often but when he realized he couldn't master it he got furious, and roughed up Maxie, jumped on the bugle, and resigned from the Scouts.
But even in the early twentieth century, when Jews were known for toughness (see Siegel, Bugsy; Rosenbloom, Slapsie Maxie) the stereotypical Jewish mother used what Joseph Nye would call soft power, wrapping specific and restrictive ideas about her children's future in a nurturing bosom.
He talks to the elevator operator on the way out and then with the doorman of another apartment house, and has a chat with Maxie, the newsstand man.
