Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Evangelist Sunday last visited Manhattan two days after the U. S. declared war on Germany (April 6, 1917). At the Tabernacle, hastily-built auditorium on Broadway at 168th Street, he sermonized on patriotism, second coming of Jesus Christ, the growth of Christianity, motherhood. Let Newsstand-Buyer Willis entrain for Ocean Grove, N. J., where Evangelist Sunday was expected the last week of August; let him quiz Evangelist Sunday on his avoidance of Manhattan...
...more the ordinary woman might be alarmed. In some vague way, he was to be the symbol of sexual infidelity, of degrading pleasures which the virtuous woman feared more than beer. He was to be thoroughly confused with New York, and somehow all the vice (sex) of Broadway and the Bowery was to be imputed...
...Broadway game, an itinerant and expensive Manhattan crap tournament, is often patronized by 0. K. Coakley, Long George, Dollar John, Titanic, Fred Perry, the Elk City Flash...
Elmer Gantry. Evangelists are not popular upon Broadway and in the theatre they are monsters of depravity, to be baited and scorned. Sinclair Lewis in his savage history made Elmer Gantry a lewd and naughty figure. But in the play he is so wicked as to be incredible, an exaggerated bugaboo of vast proportion, snooping in his sordid tents with concupiscent treachery...
...Bedmakers for David Binney Putnam): $2,501,438 as against $2,242,482. Coca Cola International Corp. (The heat, the humidity): $1,264,533 as against $1,204,023. N. Y. Central Railroad Co. (20th Century Limited): $28,544,608 as against $30,959,292. Pennsylvania Railroad Co. (Broadway Limited) : $51,277,232 as against $51,125,413. Delaware and Hudson Co. (Leonor Fresnel Loree): $2,628,071 as against $2,429,024. Postum Co. (The Edward F. Button's): $7,426,630 as against $6,750,384. Canada Dry ("Champagne of Ginger Ales"): $1,449,191 as against...