Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Backstage Club, a little "speak" which he established over a garage on Manhattan's West 56th Street. Billy's shows, which were bingo-bango-bungo stuff even in those early days, soon made the club popular with the better type of bootleggers and gangsters of the Prohibition era. Joe Frisco was M.C., and to sing his song. Billy hired a chorus girl with a voice as hot and blue as a gas flame-Helen Morgan...
...payrolls with 65 of his relatives, made his brother Edward chief of police, exacted 3% salary kickbacks and complete humility from city employees. McFeely's trucks collected Hoboken's garbage (but so carelessly that goats followed them in the streets). His city became a hangout for prohibition-era gangsters. In time, he had a fortune...
...never before caddied for a grown man wearing short pants," drawled the caddy. The plus fours that Bobby Locke brought with him from South Africa got plenty of attention last week in Texas. They were not the only reminder Bobby Locke brought of a past, and more genial, era in golf...
...Postmaster. But one era's highway is apt to be the next era's rut: Ben Hibbs found the magazine freighted with 8,500-word "short" stories, long "bootstrap" opuses on Men Who Made the Grade, a rather-be-right GOPolicy that wasn't confined to the editorial page, an audience that had grown old with Lorimer. Two weeks before Hibbs took over, the price went up to a dime. Hibbs and his 29-year-old managing editor, Robert Fuoss, set out to capture a younger audience with women in some of the seats. (Lorimer...
...name had to be found for the age in which we live," says the author of this book, "we might safely call it the Marxian era. For, in one way or another, the most important facts of our time lead back to one man-Karl Marx...