Word: 42nd
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...clear winter midnight last week, a patrolman standing in the shadow of a doorway on West 42nd St., Manhattan, saw a figure proceeding irregularly toward him, now with a kittenish skip, now with a wobbling adaptation of a popular dance-step, now with a stride that sagged curiously sideways. The patrolman stepped out of shadow. The night-wanderer raised a hand in genial recognition...
...Down on 42nd Street, workmen dug up the cornerstone of the old Murray Hill Baths, once known as "The House of a Thousand Hangovers," another landmark of a Manhattan that is vanishing. Underneath it they found a pint of champagne, two pieces of script, old-fashioned paper money (for 25? and 50?), four copper coins, and letters of patent issued to one Dwight Berry Brown in 1814 for the invention of a waterloom...
...does to many men, a 42nd birthday came to Benito Mussolini, Premier of Italy. The War Department, of which the Premier is chief, marked the event by presenting Signor Mussolini with a large-calibre shell case, handsomely engraved. One engraving depicted the Premier as a corporal of the bersaglieri (sharpshooters) in the trenches. Another pictured him as a wounded soldier. A third, as Minister...
...service in Morocco under the famous General d'Amade. At the beginning of the War, he, was a major and was rapidly promoted to be General for his brilliant work. At the last German offensive on Rheims, he had under his command the U. S. "Rainbow Division" (42nd) as well as the 2nd and 36th U. S. Divisions, whom he commended in army orders for their valor, spirit, ardor...
...George McManus' comic strip have been trouping through the one-night stands. One of them has suddenly, and quite unaccountably, turned up in a Broadway theatre. Loud was the cynics' laughter. Manhattan will not endure for many nights a one- nightstand company dressed up in 42nd Street clothing. Both as to wit, music and performance the offering was generously condemned as the season's dead...