Word: cards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Student Finley went anonymously to Manhattan; failed twice; on the third application got work making radio loudspeakers at 37 cents an hour. For proof he took his time card back to Lafayette. Thereby he forfeited his pay, but won Professor Steever's "good cigar...
...thin, not bald, not dark, not light, not Wet, not a Dry, with a wife, son, daughter, pipe, radio, three-year-old automobile. Average Mr. Gray visited Chicago last week. There he bought a picture postcard of his hotel, marked his window with a "X," mailed the card home. He wanted to see the Chicago park system, stock yards, municipal pier "and that stadium where the Dempsey-Tunney fight was held." He said: "Greatest American? Lindbergh, undoubtedly. Next President ? Oh, probably Charley Hughes. Locarno pact? What's that?" Hearst Editor Arthur Brisbane took occasion to flay Mr. Gray: "He never...
...charge accounts of the 8600 members of the Society-last year. The total amount, which is $8,000 more than last year's dividends, will be distributed beginning at 9 o'clock this morning, upon presentation of a 1926-27 membership ticket or this year's bursar's card...
...another question to the application card for seats at football games, namely: Do you intend to be drunk at this game? It would then be possible to have a Guzzler's Section and the common run of spectators could be spared from synthetic fumes and maudlin comments...
Stubbornly sticking to its original, quiet neighborhood, The Players is not an actors' club in the popular sense.* The few that love it go there; a very few live there. There are card rooms and pool tables; soft chairs for reading; writing desks. In the back is a small garden around which runs a veranda where the members dine in summer. The club is always quiet, although from the peculiar demands of its actor members it stays open late at night. In these days Don Marquis may be often seen there; Jules Guerin, the painter; Otis Skinner; John Barrymore...