Word: clubbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mother computed her clothing allowance at $5,400. Smartly groomed and ubiquitous, Brenda was a photographer's cynosure all through 1938. In her unglamorous moments, she wears shell-rimmed spectacles and calls her mother, now Mrs. Frederic N. Watriss, "Mummie." In more typical moments, she led a night club's hay ride through Manhattan's streets, served as debutante chairman of charity's Velvet Ball, posed for Woodbury's Soap ads. Last month, publicly expressing displeasure with her daughter's constant publicity, Mrs. Watriss packed her off to Nassau and her maternal grandparents...
...Modern clubs are little more than two centuries old. They really got going in Queen Anne's London, where men- usually impelled by politics-met regularly in coffeehouses and taverns. At the Whigs' Kit-Cat Club, Addison and Congreve fellowshipped with statesmen and lords; at the Tories' Scriblerus, Swift and his friends forgathered. Before the 18th Century went out, London swarmed with clubs that, like Dr. Johnson's immortal one, produced great conversation, or like White's, Boodle's and Brooks's, witnessed some of the steepest gambling in history...
White's, Boodle's, Brooks's still exist; London's Athenaeum Club is 115 years old. Manhattan's Union Club is 103, its Union League 76. Last week, as bells rang in another year, another Manhattan club turned a corner, looked back sentimentally at its first half-century of life. Lest memory fail, it incorporated that half-century in book form...
...years the great Edwin Booth was fired with the idea of establishing a club primarily but not entirely for actors. In the summer of 1887, with fellow-members of a yachting party, he got down to serious planning. During the next year Booth purchased a Manhattan house at 16 Gramercy Park, engaged Stanford White to remodel it, collected 46 charter members, and on the last night of the year, as first president of The Players, handed over the deed of No. 16 to Augustin Daly, the first vice-president. Next day Booth moved in, and for the five remaining years...
...years, The Players has become one of the great Bohemian clubs of the world. Besides artists, all sorts and conditions of men have gained admittance- ambassadors and auctioneers, ornithologists and explorers, magicians and Presidents of the U. S. Actors have always formed a powerful minority. Only dramatic critics are excluded by rule-to avoid the possible embarrassment of having them run into actors they have panned. The long list of celebrated members includes Grover Cleveland, Mark Twain, Sir Henry Irving, the elder J. P. Morgan, Elihu Root, John Singer Sargent (whose Edwin Booth hangs in the club), George Bellows, John...