Word: 57th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...canine social scale, the extreme opposites of New Jersey's wild dogs (see above) were six elegant creatures who paraded under the bright lights of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden one night last week. From 2,240 entries in the Westminster Kennel Club's 57th annual show these six, chosen best of their breeds and classes, had reached the final competition for the title of Best in Show, finest U. S. dog. The dogs seemed to know it. Gravely circling the green-carpeted judging ring, they appeared oblivious of the 5,000 spectators and of each other...
Reporters leaped for their hats, photographers jumped for their cameras, Artist Zdzislaw Czermanski was routed from his hotel room. A fleet of honking taxis bore down on 57th Street. Reporters reached the galleries just as the grey-haired Polish politico-pianist departed in a pale blue swirl of burnt gasoline. The perspiring assemblage was left to admire the pictures...
...Eilshemius M. A., by his own admission painter, poet, musician, inventor, marksman, and "Ex Fancy Amateur Dancer." He loves to buttonhole strangers in hallways and describe his own superior accomplishments. He was once wealthy. He is still listed in the Social Register, lives in a brownstone house on East 57th Street and has spent a fortune on strange pamphlets and books to prove that Elshemus or Eilshemius (the spelling varies) is the greatest artist the world has ever known. Eilshemius also states that Eilshemius has written music, invented a portable piano and a game known as "Sixers"' (like pinochle...
...standing by her bed, echoed the words of his brother: 'There is a curse on this house.' Dawn dragged into the next day. At 2 o'clock on Feb. 14, her body weakened by Bright's disease. Alice died. . . Two hearses moved side by side from the home on 57th Street. . . . A door was closed on the three years during which they lived together, a door that was never opened. . . . Honors came to Roosevelt; age came also. Only Alice Lee remains young and does not fade. She is forever fair, like the figure on the Grecian...
...idea from headquarters in Washington. Mr. Gardiner is pleased when his friends call him "The Admiral." Boston-born, he worked as a chemist, got into electrical engineering, became an associate partner of Utilitarian Henry Latham Doherty, made enough money to retire to a comfortable home on Manhattan's East 57th Street. Mrs. Gardiner is Mary Ruth McBurney, interior decorator...