Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago that I embarked on my career of mixing. A Boston saloon offered me my first opportunity along those lines. After a brief stay there, I obtained a job in Detroit, Michigan, where I remained for several years. In 1898 I came to the Parker House and I have been here ever since. Back in the '90s, two cocktails cost a quarter and a quart of the best whiskey sold for .75. The present-day prices, although not as cheap as that, are still reasonable. The cocktails cost as follows: Martini .25, Manhattan .30, Bronx .25, Clover Club...
...when old Henry (Uncle Henry) Morganthau's red Packard forced its way through the crowd with the aid of some of the 450 special police. Out of the car got a Roman Catholic priest. He was soon lost until someone screeched "Here's Father Coughlin" and catapulted Detroit's famed radio demagog through a door. Old Uncle Henry followed in the swirl but onetime Senator Robert Owen, tall and feeble, became terrified. "Please get me out of this" cried...
...Detroit was sure last week that other makers, notably Ford, were secretly fiddling with their own knees...
...position he filled with apparent success despite his almost total deafness. Not long ago Daughter Mary mistook poison for Fruitatives in her medicine closet and died. Last January Son Fulford Patrick Hardy eloped with a 16-year-old Toronto school girl, and after a wild ride from Toronto to Detroit to Toledo to Crown Point, Ind., finally got married. They separated soon after...
...complete a representative collection of the works of George Kolbe, the Germanic Museum has lately acquired a bronze head of Dr. W. R. Valentiner, distinguished director of Art Institute of Detroit. This acquisition is a gift of Mrs. John D. Mcllheny of Philadelphia...