Word: brevoort
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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...
Married. Adelaide Brevoort Hutton, daughter of Financier Edward Francis Hutton, Chairman of Postum Cereal Co.; to Thomas Wells Durant of Guilford, Conn., in Manhattan. Orange blossoms brought from California by airplane decorated the altar...
...shadows of the past a scenery city has been reared which is a marvel of accurate detail. The city, the customs, the clothes, the personages are on parade. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Henry Brevoort, John Jacob Astor look from the screen at their descendants in the audience. The climax comes when a reconstructed Robert Fulton steams away upon its memorable trial trip, which is to sweep the seas of sailing ships...
Eddy, Henry Brevoort...
...entertainment in aid of the Harvard University crew will be given under the auspices of the Harvard Club of New York City, at the Theatre of the Union League Club, Monday, May 8, at 8 o'clock. Tickets can be procured by addressing Montgomery D. Parker, 21 Brevoort Place, or at G. P. Putnam's Sons, Twenty-third Street and Fourth Avenue. Price, two dollars. Committee: M. D. Parker, F. G. Ireland, E. Szemelenyi, H. H. Crocker, Thomas Kinnicutt, F. M. Weld, F. R. Appleton...