Word: adelphi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Liverpool's Adelphi Hotel sporting men in loud checked waistcoats kept their confidence up by the bootstraps as they waited last week for the running of the Grand National Steeplechase. In progress was one of the greatest bookies' panics in years; for if the ''favorite," Blue Shirt, should win, the bookies stood to lose ?1,000,000. Actually, few racing men seriously believed Blue Shirt would win, but there was always an off chance that the public might for once be right. Bookies, like frightened stockbrokers, forced odds down to 8-to-1 to save their...
While first-night crowds jostled London bobbies outside the Adelphi Theatre, behind the curtain the milling cast of Trans-atlantic Rhythm threatened a walk-out unless Producer James Paul ("Jimmy") Donahue Jr., 23-year-old 5-&-10? heir, paid their back salaries. Though she claimed she was owed $7,250 herself, up sprang Mexican Actress Lupe Velez, crooned Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life to the fretful chorines, persuaded them to put on the $110,000 revue without pay. The show...
...Queen Mary requested members of the Court to go out of mourning for her late husband, paid a visit to London's famed Adelphi Terrace, home of many a great British writer, soon to be razed for an office-building development. Escorted by the real-estate agent, she poked among the underground arches where Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist imagined a thieves' kitchen...
...flashed their bulbs. Jon, in his father's arms, blinked, then buried his face in the grey-plaid shoulder. The tall man and the small woman moved quickly through the sheds, popped into one of the motor cars, sped away, followed by five carloads of newshawks. In the Adelphi Hotel they went through the lobby without registering, were alone at last in their rooms...
...often does Dallas see a premiere, let alone one by the Sage of Adelphi Terrace, whose U.S. representatives, the Theatre Guild, had sanctioned the performance. Nevertheless, Dallas' critical fraternity rose magnificently to the occasion. Observed Critic John Rosenfield Jr. of the Morning News...