Word: bronston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Backs: Charles T. Bauer, Robert B. Black, Jack E. Bronston, Walter T. Brooks, Jr., Edward T. Buckley, Jr., Thomas M. Cook, John J. Devine, William C. Dias, George R. Dreher, Jean I. Gordon, George W. Heiden, John A. Holabird, Melvin I. Kohan, William B. Long, Jr., Farahe Maloof, Guy G. Meli, Lester J. Murphy, Wendall Nichols, Daniel M. Pearce, Coles Phinizy, Amos L. Proctor, Edmund J. Reddy, Maurice E. Rice, Thaddeus V. Strezynski, Harold Tine, Henry G. Vander Eb, Walter E. Whittaker, Lothrop Withington...
Comedienne Beatrice Lillie (Lady Peel) was among the early-morning guests at Club Calais, one of the many nightclubs in Manhattan. A man passed her table, stumbled over her feet. He proved to be Ben ("Brownie") Bronston, whom the New York Daily News described as "a pal of Waxie Gordon in the Jersey booze racket." That newspaper reported the following conversation...
...Bronston (to Lady Peel's escort): Tell that dame to keep her feet under the table...
...Bronston (to her): And you button up your kisser. What do you think this joint is?the Ritz? You highbrow dames that go slumming give me a pain...
Three big male spectators thereupon seized Bronston, threw him out. He barked from the lobby: "But I'll come back here some night with my mob and toss this camp out into the street...