Word: cabareting
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...opponent, Big Boy Peterson, a New Orleans Swede, only two inches shorter but 60 Ib. lighter. Big Boy stared with a white, sick face at the giant, and when the bell rang rushed toward him, was knocked down four times in quick succession, counted out. Camera hurried to a cabaret, cut a large steak in four slices and swallowed it, asked for more, drank three glasses of champagne, went out to a speakeasy for a bottle of ale, smoked many cigarets. Impressed by the speed with which he had manipulated his enormous bulk and by the correctness of his boxing...
...went to a hotel chosen for him by his manager, rang for tea but, knowing no English, failed to make the waiter understand. He shrugged his shoulders, sat down at the piano, played Tea for Two, got what he wanted. His first Manhattan night was spent in a Harlem cabaret listening to brazen jazz which he adores, his second at a musicomedy. Then he started on a tour, played first with the Philadelphia Orchestra, went into Canada, then through the Middle West...
...gaiety only faintly flavored with sentiment. Bebe Daniels had a good time and seldom took a holiday. She was engaged to Charles ("Fastest Human") Paddock, but called it off. One winter there was a popular song called "Bebe, Be Mine" and even now when she goes to a cabaret the orchestra leader usually recognizes her and starts to play it-a gay, only lightly sentimental song. Bebe Daniels likes all games but likes swimming better and riding still better and best of all to drive a fast car fast. She is seldom arrested...
...boosting the Jones-White Act (ship subsidies) last year (TIME, Sept. 2 et seq.}. Company officials had testified they did hire Shearer, in admitted folly. Now the Senators had to hear Shearer. Between his gusts of anger and invective they learned he had been a prizefight, cabaret and theatre promoter; an actor playing the heavy in Ten Nights in a Barroom; a Florida realtor; a suspect at Scotland Yard; a bail-jumper in a Connecticut liquor case; a painter, inventor, "naval expert...
...years she has several times displayed her auburn sightliness (The Moon Flower, The Grand Duchess and the Waiter, The House of Women), only to learn that the chords of life which she interpreted were dissonances. In Scarlet Pages she appears as a capable woman lawyer to whom appeals a cabaret girl who has killed her father because of his incestuous attempts...