Word: adelphi
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Ticket Agents. The countless victims of ticket salesmen rejoiced on general principles last week to hear that the license of Manhattan's Adelphi Theatre Ticket Service, Inc., had been revoked. To Samuel Sprung, lawyer, the Adelphians had sold two tickets for a football game, telling him they were in the centre of the field, charging him $9 apiece, a $3 advance over the regular admission price. At the game, Lawyer Sprung sat behind the goal posts. Later he returned to the agency, was refused a $3 rebate, took legal action, triumphed...
...Shaws moved from their famed quarters in Adelphi Terrace when the building was torn down, and live today in a modern elevator apartment ("service flat") overlooking the Thames...
...LOVE GAME?Suzanne Lenglen?Adelphi ($2). Let tongues come out of cheeks and scoffing stifle. As novels go, Suzanne's is no ace, but she has not committed a footfault. No just judge may accuse her of overstepping her knowledge. Her heroine, une jeune fille bien levee, wants to be world tennis champion. Circumstances make it necessary for her to turn professional. She has English suitors. She becomes involved with an Argentine. She gambles at Monte Carlo. Her love affairs are complicated by a code of honor more British than Gallic, and solved by tactics allegedly American?but what shrewd...
...Author. Sarah Gertrude Millin has always lived in South Africa. She is the Jewish wife of a Johannesburg barrister. She writes for South African papers, including the Cape Times, whose literary column is by her; also for John Middleton Hurry's very earnest and intelligent Adelphi, in London. The Jordans was her first widely read work. Last year, God's Stepchildren, a study in miscegenation worked out like an inexorable chapter from the Old Testament, was very highly praised. Sequel...
...Soon The Star was started. Shaw was made Art Critic. I suppose it was writing on art that gave him the idea that he was an authority on the subject, but to this day he does not know the difference between a photograph and a painting .... Our Adelphi Terrace windows looked right into Shaw's.... One day Barrie, who then lived under us, wanted to show Shaw to some guests he had to lunch, and he fired a roll from his dining table through the open window on to Shaw's table and his guests saw Shaw...