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Word: delancey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, one Tai Leong, 35, was sentenced to ten days in the workhouse. He was charged with disorderly conduct because he caused a crowd near Delancey St. to "gape and surround" him and to laugh uproariously at his grotesque capers. He was laughing, leaping, singing?drunk on tea, which he crammed into his mouth dry. Since tea was not on the contrabrand list, policemen could not confiscate it when he was jailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Apr. 25, 1927 | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

Libby's stands on Delancey St., a district of pushcarts and lunch-stands and faded, unclosed saloons. Its promoters believe that its magnificence will be enough to change the district, that other hotels for Jews will spring up beside it and bring with them restaurants, theatres, stores, turning back the city's surge to the north. Its stock, some $2,200,000 worth, is held by 25,000 Jews. It derives the name "Libby's" from "Die Liebe," a term of affection which its manager, Max Bernstein, applied to his mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: For Jews | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

...elections, etc. It has seemed to many Gentiles high time that the Jews, with their plentiful resources, relieve themselves of embarrassment by building their own colleges, just as they have their own churches, dwelling colonies (e. g., Long Beach, L. I.), and even hotels (e.g., the Hotel Libby, at Delancey and Chrystie Streets, Manhattan, which opened formally last week for Jews only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: To Yale, a Prince | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

Princeton, N. J., January 29.--Frank Peabody Jr. '27, of Montgomery, Ala., was elected last night to the position of Chairman of the Princetonian. The post was left vacant by the resignation of Larragh Delancey '27, who has been advised by his doctor to leave Princeton because of poor health...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PEABODY CHOSEN BY DAILY PRINCETONIAN AS NEW HEAD | 1/30/1926 | See Source »

TODAY Anthropology 5Sever 23 Astronomy 1b Bagley-Morehouse Sever 5 Olive-Woodworth Sever 6 Botany 7 Gray Herb. Economics 7b Babin-Morris Sever 35 Oliver-Young Sever 36 Economics 31 Holden English 2 Abbott-Delafield Harvard 2 deLancey-D. K. Goodell Harvard 3 P. W. Goodell-Miller Harvard 5 Moll-Zofnass Harvard 6 French 9 Bliss-Sandulli Sever 17 Scheffreen-Wyman Sever 18 Geography 1 Amory-Stern Geol. Lect. Rm. Stevens-Wyman Geol. Mus. 42 German B Sever 36 German 1a Dr. Silz's sect. 3 Sever 23 Dr. Cawley's sect. 4 Sever 24 German 2b Pierce 304 German...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXAMS SCHEDULED FOR TODAY AND TOMORROW | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

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