Word: central
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...train arrived at the Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan at 7.45 p.m. People cheered. He lifted a brown fedora hat in response. He went to room 1423 (a $25-per-day suite) in the Hotel Commodore, adjoining the station. There, barricaded against the world, Calvin Coolidge attended to private business...
Florenz Ziegfeld has written the preface to "Secrets of Charm", by Josephine Huddleston, which Putnam's have published this week. The book is having its premiere at the first annual National Beauty Show which is being held at Grand Central Palace. New York City, March 27 April 3, where Miss Huddleston is Official Mistress of Ceremonies for the week...
...authoritarian hierarchy of social groups, which is thus made part of the Italian governmental machinery, is often decried as syndicalism. Whether this can be maintained when the corporations are made into creatures of the central political authorities (since they depend upon these authorities for recognition) is doubtful to me. It might with more justification be maintained that they bring about a rigid bureaucratization of the social strata, which elsewhere are left more or less to their own council and initiative. To some extent this tendency to governmentalize the 'interest groups' is to be found in all modern states. But what...
Pollard prepared for Harvard at the Washington Central High School, and holds the scholarship from the Harvard Club of Washington...
...unperturbable. Beneath, a swarm of writhing, punching, scratching, squealing, black-skinned creatures did battle with four white spectres of the law. Confusion reigned, skulls were rapped and knuckles barked; black men screeched and white men cursed. . . . The stars were those that stud the ceiling of Manhattan's Grand Central Station. The battle was between Negro porters and detectives who had raided a "policy" (lottery) game...