Word: cabaret
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them, was consulted by eminent financiers, concluded millions of dollars' worth of business, became well established, had his praises sung by all and sundry. One fine morning as the sun winked at the spires of Prague, Mrs. Gray noted that her spouse had not returned from the cabaret around the corner. At high noon, Harry was still absent. Enquiries were made. People became anxious. More than one man of money toyed nervously with the crowns in his trousers pocket. Some scanned their ledgers with much anxiety, noted that large sums of money had been paid to Mr. Gray, remembered...
...Jarrell had seen. Revenue cutters, scouring the seas, towed nothing to port. Suspicion grew. Haled to the Herald-Tribune sanctum, Jarrell was questioned again. He stuck to his story, begged leave to bring substantiating evidence, left the office. The next mail brought a full confession that his "sea cabaret" was a myth. Sore at heart, the Herald-Tribune apologized to the public and to the other Manhattan newspapers; posted Sanford Jarrell's name on the bulletin board as "dishonorably dismissed." On reporters' benches the country over there was much moralizing on the futility of trying to rise...
More recently, in Manhattan, a "piebald" comedian, involved in a girl-beating scandal, smashed the camera of a Daily News photographer who had lain in wait for him at a cabaret door...
...Leviathan (United States)? Edwin V. Morgan, U. S. Ambassador to Brazil; Carl Laemmle, Jr., cinema producer; Gilda Gray, famed dancer, with her husband, Gil Boag, Broadway cabaret owner...
...Harlem section of New York, usually so peaceful and law-abiding, received a severe jolt. About 4 :30 o'clock in the morning when "Bill" Brennan, ex-pugilist and proprietor of the Club Tia Juana Cabaret, was eating a good-night meal with his sister (stage name Shirley Sherman) and with his old friend, James Cullen, a State trooper, a man stepped into the cabaret, tapped Brennan on the shoulder, said : "Bill, can I see you a minute?" Brennan, knowing many, but known to many more, did not recognize the man, but, excusing himself from his sister...