Word: foyer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...phraseology of "Time"--comes the opera season to the denizens of Greater Boston. It is a signal for many time honored customs: for Willa Jerdone and Betty Alden, experts on Society, to go quite, quite berserk in descriptions of what is being worn in the foyer; for the illustrators of department store advertisements to draw countless long necked and apparently under-nourished grande dames; for H. T. P. to polish off some terse enigmatic quips surmounted by the conventional H. T. P. headlines; for music stores to haul out dusty liberties; for discussions of the life and times of Mary...
...Insull of the Chicago Civic Opera was accosted by one Charles W. King, a wild-eyed fellow who shook his fist and babbled threats "for the way he'd treated Lorna Doone Jackson."*Courteously President Insull listened, took Mr. King's arm, walked with him down the foyer to the manager's office, apparently to give him better chance to air his grievances. There he turned him over to detectives, who ordered him to a psychopathic hospital where doctors found him insane...
They got a long knife and the fire tongs. Taking the empty ale bottles with them, they lurched out to the foyer, overturning tables as they went, bashing at lamps and pictures, slashing at hangings. Before two pastels of blonde young ladies-Mrs. Olga Griscom and the Princess Anita Lobkowicz, Mr. Lihme's daughters-they swayed, squinting. They swung their weapons, ruined the faces, lurched on to greater havoc, Mr. Healy pausing only to exercise his muscle further on another chandelier...
...building will be divided into three main sections, the auditorium, the vestbule foyer with offices and rooms for the Triangle Club, and the stage work shop...
...afternoon last week John Webb, 19, of Anniston, Ala., crossed Times Square, Manhattan, surrounded by a crowd of tittering street dolls and foyer sheiks. He entered a Childs' restaurant nearby, sat down, ordered a meal. The crowd persisted in peering at him through the window; some of them entered the restaurant and ordered a glass of milk or a cracker in order to sit near him; waitresses in the restaurant whispered behind their hands...