Word: 22nd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan is to elevate a motor concourse above the railroad right-of-way now labelled Eleventh and Twelfth Avenues and commonly, because of accidents, called "Death Avenue." Ramps to the superstructure will occur at 22nd, 44th and 57th Streets. The whole will cost some $13,500,000 (graft excluded). One boom in Manhattan riverside real estate has already occurred recently, on the Harlem River bank around 80th Street, under the leadership of Vincent Astor. The new concourse was expected to carry the boom from east side to west side, all around the town...
...Manhattan last week 400 young women made a polite but determined entrance into a room on the 22nd floor of the Hotel Barbizon. They were dressed in their anxious best. They were members of the Junior League of America and they were visiting their new national headquarters...
...next day was John's 22nd birthday; love reached him from Brule. Mrs. Hills gave him a birthday party...
Casually, almost with nonchalance, an under executive of the General Motors Corp. passed out to newspaper men assembled on the 22nd floor of the offices at 57th St. & Broadway, Manhattan, last week, a typwritten sheet "known in newspaper patois as a "handout," a "canned" statement (opprobrious terms suggesting little or no news value...
...breakfast table. Boom! Boom! Boom! Inert bodies squirmed between the sheets. Boom! Boom! Boom! Alert businessmen and women resigned themselves to a long count?they hoped it would be a very long count. Boom! Boom! Boom! Twenty-one blank shots, in all, were fired. Ears strained for the 22nd. The pause grew longer and longer, but the 22nd boom never came...