Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Here's one for you?listen to this: Ashland Avenue Baptist, printed in Lexington, Ky., on the front page of a church publication in a box of heavy black type: 'Recently the papers published how Governor Smith came near to a serious accident driving fifty miles an hour down Broadway while intoxicated. He was driving the car himself practicing his wet gospel...
Night Hostess. It was said of Philip Dunning, playsmith of Night Hostess, that he was a losing principal in one of the numerous fistal engagements which took place last winter during the speakeasy season. Whether or not that is true, Play-smith Dunning knows rackets, racketeers; specifically, he knows Broadway and Broadwayfarers, most of whom are in one racket or another. Not one of their characters has he gone wide of in portrayal...
...only one thing and that is a smart, scheming, successful harlot. Mae West, buxom actress, is chiefly responsible for making this meaning a household word. Her play, Diamond Lil, in which she performs the leading role of a dive-keeper's mistress, has been a smash-hit on Broadway since early spring...
...Manhattan this week, Republican voters in the Congressional district which contains most that is interesting on the wealthiest U. S. island-i.e., it contains the glittering end of Park Avenue and the staccato sectors of Fifth Avenue and Broadway-were asked to choose, for G. O. P. Congressional nominee, between...
...group of buildings near Broadway, Manhattan, where composers bang pianos and put together the jazz jingles...