Word: billingsley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dapper, boyish Sherman Billingsley, 44, seemed tired as he bowed over ladies' hands at cocktails. In the summer he likes to go to the Atlantic Beach Club at Long Beach, Long Island, to dabble in the surf and suntan himself for a hard winter in doors. But now he was losing his tan; all last week Billingsley had been kept from the beach by New York's hen-shaped May or LaGuardia. On the previous Saturday night the Mayor had sent four uninvited characters into the lush decor of Billingsley's famed blue-and-gold Stork Club...
...would find that the total had been padded. The club pays the correct tax, then keeps what's left, said the city, to cover "breakage." Mayor LaGuardia, who, unlike ex-Mayor Jimmy Walker, never goes to nightclubs, wanted to take over that extra money for the City. Billingsley, suave host at the club which draws the bottle-top of the bourgeoisie, could easily pay the Stork...
Trouble, Off & On. But Sherman Billingsley was still tired. He had to pore over thousands of checks and his books to see if he could get himself out of the jam mathematically. And the law loomed just outside the Stork's door...
...bitters. Toyama's men were eating raw fish and seaweed in their gathering places in Shinjuku and Mukojima, where, I am certain, Mr. Byas did not have the interesting fortune to enter upon the conclaves and hear the plots. The locale and character are as different as Sherman Billingsley's Stork Club and a Harlem honky-tonk marijuana parlor...
Grimly Mr. Billingsley, his blood and the penalties both now very high, announced he would take the case to the U. S. Supreme Court...