Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Evenings in Russia are long? how better to pass them than by a game of chess in front of the fire? A Paris restaurant, chequered with the light and shade of tablecloths and parquetry, is a background that fittingly salutes a pair of men in dinner-clothes seated on each side of a black and white board; in California patios, in drawing-rooms overlooking the Grand Canal of Venice, in the smoking-car of the Florida Sunbeam, and on the glass verandas of the hotels that front the long sea-promenade at Ostend, the game is played...
...down in front of Reuben's restaurant on Upper Broadway, Manhattan, struts a big black man in a longtail coat. He is John Lester Johnson, sparring partner of many fighters, who once was drubbed by Jack Dempsey. Now his life is free and easy; he looks the white folks over as they pass through the door, keeps out the trashy ones, lets in the hungry ones, bows to the haughty ones, spreads his smile. Last week, while he stood displaying his buttons, a taxicab snarled down the street and stopped before him. Doorman Johnson helped two people out, waited...
Times came upon the following item on the front page...
...much was clear. Readers of the Daily News again perused the headline that had attracted them. Across the top of the front page, right over the picture, ran the huge black letters: RUM ENDS HER DANCE OF LIFE...
...performance of Carmen, starring Alice Gentle. In Manhattan a pianist kept his audience waiting for half an hour after his recital was billed to begin. When at last he entered, he began to thump the keys in an unmerciful manner, forcing his tone, letting his left hand get in front of his right and pouring out his music like beer carelessly dumped into a mug too small for it so that a turbulent foam froths over. And yet, by some strange madness in his playing he gave his technical vagaries the air of having been written for him by Wagner...