Word: al
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...largest hotel in the U. S. is Hotel Stevens on Chicago's Michigan Avenue. Fortnight ago its management, fearful of prohibition prosecutions, declined to serve the accessories of highballs, cocktails et al. Blacklisted were ginger ale, sparkling water, bowls...
...Before them appeared Congressmen from farm states to state the price (i.e., upward revision on pet commodities) they would demand to support the measure on the House floor. Patiently the committee heard them ask for greater duties on casein, canned tomatoes, potatoes, live cattle, hides, blackstrap, dairy products et al...
Jails keep prisoners in and prisoners' enemies out. Last week Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, once Chicago's No. 1 under-worldling, now a hunted exile "on the spot," went behind the bars of Philadelphia's Moyamensing jail for a year's "stretch." Philadelphia and Chicago officials were sure that Capone had deliberately taken refuge in prison, where the only bullets he would have to worry about would come from the guards' rifles...
...whaddya wanna do, sing 'Sonny Boy?'"That is Broadway's latest wisecrack to victims who complain unduly, or to friends grown maudlin in their cups. In England, "Sonny Boy," a super-saccharine ballad of child love introduced by Blackface Singer Al Jolson in his latest sound film, is still new and popular. More, it has become a Conservative campaign song...
...average hat size is 7⅛. Among average size takers are Calvin Coolidge and Al Jolson. John D. Rockefeller Sr. wears a 7½ John D. Rockefeller Jr. a 7⅜. The largest hat ever made was a special order from a Ringling Brothers Giant, who weighed 480 pounds and took an 8⅞. There is not much variation in straw hat styles, straws of the present (delayed) season tending toward a narrowed brim and a slightly bell-shaped crown...