Who said laughing all the way to the bank

Went into Mukton with every dollar he had—so kind of Mr. Breen to let him in—yes, put him down for 2, shares more. Next day the bottom dropped out. Some of them heard Mason laugh all the way to the bank.

The earliest occurrence of the phrase that I have found is from the gossip column On Broadway , by the American journalist Walter Winchell a. Eddie Walker perhaps is the wealthiest fight manager in the game. The other night when his man Belloise lost, Eddie had the miseries. He felt so terrible, he cried all the way to the bank! The context of the second-earliest instance of the phrase that I have found is very similar to that of the preceding quotation: to cry all the way to the bank was also used about a fight manager whose boxer had been beaten; this appeared in the column The Lyons Den , by Leonard Lyons, published in several newspapers on Friday 26 th January —for example in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania :.

Recently a Chicago music critic gave Liberace a pretty rough time. However, the singer tried to emphasise that he was not upset by the charge of homosexuality, but that of hypocrisy. The magazine had insinuated that Donovan was a liar and a hypocrite for denying rumours of his homosexuality. Since winning the case and handing back the pounds , damages , Donovan has sought to make it up to the gay community; he gave a long, post-trial interview to a gay radio show and, last year, stepped out to host the Mr Gay UK contest.

David Ashby, then a Tory MP, must regret his day in court in , when he lost a libel action against the Sunday Times over a report that he had shared a bed with another man while on holiday.

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