Word: brevoort
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hetty Green) rose and fell over the pump-handle projecting from the organ's side. Some 80 tycoons, lesser businessmen, artists and writers boomed out their official anthem (chorus given above*) to the rhythmic accompaniment of pounded beer mugs in a big private dining room of the Hotel Brevoort, Manhattan. It was the "47th, 48th & 49th Fiscal Meetings and First Bicentennial Hard Times Party'' of the Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers, a thriving, purposeless organization of men who at some time or other manned the pump-handle of an organ. Last week's meeting...