Word: chinatown
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...Ragtime Jimmy" played in the classic razzmatazz style- heavy chording in the bass and light finagling in the treble-of which he is still in perfect possession. He worked in a motley of joints, including Chinatown's Chatham Club. Around 1916 Jimmy got together a five-piece Dixieland combination for the Club Alamo in Har lem. Their output is best described by their leader: '"When we played a fox trot in dem days, we had to put up a sign and say 'Fox Trot' so a guy could know what to expect. . . . Playin' pianner...
...around trees named for the States, they foregather to 1) exchange impressions of the advanced intellectual life, 2) make dates to be snapshot in front of Alma Mater's gilt statue, 3) talk about exotic eating possibilities downtown, 4) plan tours of the city's features, from Chinatown, Rockefeller Center, the Empire State Building, to the nightclubs (where many will probably enrage waiters by asking for nonalcoholic drinks...
There, in Yokohama's Chinatown, The Viper ran a restaurant, picked up a few more yen by teaching Spanish and Filipino dialects at the Imperial University of Tokyo. Under the tutelage of hoary old Mitsuru Toyama, founder of Japan's fabulous Black Dragon Society, The Viper organized Kapatiran Anak Ng Bayan, a secret society whose aim was to foment uprisings in the Philippines...
...distinguished citizen of Manhattan's Chinatown, made it his business to round up Chinese who could not speak English, see that they registered (5,000 did). Said Mr. Yow: "I tell them they will get a chance to fight Japan. They come with me, quick...
...through her world of clubs and the Women's Chamber of Commerce, creates a fine job for herself at the age of 60. Mild Mrs. Lee teaches bridge to the new-rich. Brash young Lucy resolves to have a career before marriage, teaches tennis, finds fear of a Chinatown plot leading her into the arms of her patient suitor. Though The House of Lee will scarcely be immortal, Gertrude Atherton herself seems to have a pretty good chance...