Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...befitted her destiny, Maria Bowen Chapin was well born, daughter of a Wickford, R. I. manufacturer. Behind her were a grandfather and great-grandfather who had been Governors of the State. Educated in private schools in Providence, Maria Chapin went to New York in the '90s, began to teach small groups of her friends' children. In 1901, with seven teachers and some 75 pupils, she founded Miss Chapin's School on West 47th Street...
...Marks was better at spotting good songs and marketing them than he was at writing them. In the '90s a song might make a hit in New York but the problem was how to spread songs over the country. Marks planted his with minstrel shows. "The Lost Child" (1894) and "Asleep in the Deep" (1898) went big on the road. In New York the new songs were "You're Not the Only Pebble on the Beach" (1896), "Take Back Your Gold" (1897), "She's More to be Pitied than Censured" (1898). Then ragtime started its rage...
...mixing. A Boston saloon offered me my first opportunity along those lines. After a brief stay there, I obtained a job in Detroit, Michigan, where I remained for several years. In 1898 I came to the Parker House and I have been here ever since. Back in the '90s, two cocktails cost a quarter and a quart of the best whiskey sold for .75. The present-day prices, although not as cheap as that, are still reasonable. The cocktails cost as follows: Martini .25, Manhattan .30, Bronx .25, Clover Club .35, Old Fashioned .35, Orange Blossom .30, Champagne...
...hospital with head bandaged, bruises on her face, was lodged secretly in the maternity wing. Chicago Tribune Newshawk Edmond Taylor slipped into her room, recognized "Marguerite Clark" as Gladys Wallis Insull, wife of Runaway Samuel Insull, reported her face unmarked. Daily Mrs. Insull, a beauteous ingenue in the '90s, has a bowl of milk brought to her room, dips her fingers in it for 15 minutes to keep her nails from cracking...
...Royal Spain's use of this same convenient "law" was one of the most telling arguments of Cuban revolutionists in the '90s...