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Bank Night
[bangk nahyt]
noun
(in the 1930s) an evening when prizes were awarded by lottery to members of the audience at a movie theater as part of a promotion to encourage theater patronage.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of Bank Night1
Example Sentences
Spareribs’ big sister won fifty dollars at a movie bank night.
The slot she was dropping her love letters into was an old bank night depository.
A nervous tic excites me and if with all these other things he wore green suits — bank night!”
He admits that the independents had a share in building up Bank Night but asserts: "We were getting such rotten pictures that we had to do something to get people into the houses."
His great contribution to campaign entertainment was a political version of cinema's Bank Night.
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