Word: clubman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Born in Avon, Ohio, 55 years ago, and educated in the public schools, Harrison Williams has achieved, more thoroughly than 98% of his contemporaries, the titles of host, amateur scientist, clubman (20 of them), with all of which he is quaintly press-shy. His fortune has come from public utilities, which he developed, not as a sportsman but as a shrewd businessman, and which may now exceed a round hundred millions. He lives at Glen Cove, Long Island, and in the Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, town house of the late Elbert H. Gary, which he purchased last spring...
...Clubman. Joel D. Kerper, who caters to the drinking elite of Philadelphia, heard his tasty wares championed in the courtroom. Thirteen of his fastidious clientele testified. Gardner Cassatt, banker, member of the Rabbit and other Philadelphia clubs, had known 'Legger Kerper well, patronized him for over 5 years. Last May he bought several cases of champagne at $92 apiece, two cases...
Danger Street. The jilted "clubman" cannot honorably take his own life, but a distorted sense of honor permits him to meddle in the affairs of a gang-governed district, hoping always that a gangster's bullet will end it all. A second love comes into the meddling clubman's life, but the girl (Martha Sleeper), a luncheon cashier, lists not to the mating song of the clubman when she learns he has been balked by another. Warner Baxter, able actor, is unable to escape the boundaries of a bad script...
Headquarters for (a) were to be in Chicago. Headquarters for (b) were Mr. Nutt himself, at the Union Trust Co., Cleveland. To assist him in the East, Mr. Nutt picked out a Manhattanite, Jeremiah Milbank, mild-mannered Yale graduate ('09), careful investor of a multi-million patrimony; clubman, generous donor to philanthropies (especially for cripples); director of such concerns as the Southern Railway, Metropolitan Life, Chase National Bank, Corn Products; board chairman of Case, Pomeroy & Co. Like Banker Nutt and the Democracy's Raskob, Mr. Milbank is new-to politics but widely acquainted, keen to learn...
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