Word: cafes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possesses woman's qualities (emotion, perception, tenderness, ruthlessness). Genius Balieff possessed one woman's quality, and it finally drove him to desert the Moscow Art. He craved to talk. To satisfy this craving he formed his own theatre; in its early days a sort of music hall cafe, and called it The Bat. "When I make the theatre in a cellar, as I go in one day. . . one bat was flying...
Behavior. Major Arthur Kipling, chief of the Legion's military and police division, reported the legionaries' Paris conduct as "150% better than the U. S. Conventions." Not more than five cases of drunkenness were in court at any one moment. Cafe and taxicab arguments resulted in no serious assaults. The Red Cross treated only 1,400 cases during the week, mostly sore feet, fatigue, colds, temporary alcoholism...
Five sets of championship ten-nis can make strong men sob., To play those five sets a man must have a sturdy heart; a stomach un-corroded with strong drink, a breath uncontaminated by cafe smoke...
Bookman. Formerly owned by George H. Doran's publishing firm, the Bookman was what is known in the trade as a house organ. It was recently purchased by private capital for Burton Rascoe, editor. The new magazine has a gay cafe au lait cover. Inspection of its con- tents, leads critics to suspect that (like Harper's, the Atlantic Monthly, etc.) the Bookman is feeling the sharp spur of the American Mercury in the sluggish sides of thoughtful periodical publishing in the U. S. Among the articles is one by John Farrar, whose editorship (starting in 1921) brought the Bookman...
...buys it at a low price with violence. "Muscle men" regard all weaker criminals as their prey. A "muscle man" exploit that came to light last week in Chicago, was the chaining of one Sappho Jo Lawro and his partner, one Jakie Adler, proprietors of the Midnight Frolics Cafe, to iron bedsteads, and keeping them there for five days at pistol-point, until they paid over $100,000. Messrs. Lawro and Adler, evidently having done something shady themselves, dared not appeal to police...