Word: gingering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chins. No more will they, wearing what-the-gentlemen-will-wear, rush into night clubs. No more will their handsome features peer through a peekhole in a door behind which 200 topers are toping; and no more will their portly bodies enter to find a single toper dizzily sipping ginger beer. No more need wedding guests lifting their bubbling-stemmed glasses to the bride, fear sudden descent of those twain, snatching the twinkling beverage from their lips to impound it for the court. These things are not of the future. For Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith have been "laid...
...strained for novelty. There are no footlights. The stage comes graded down to a half moon of front-row tables. These are ostensibly sold to patrons at $11.00 a seat. Ginger ale is served. Off to the left where the boxes were sits a jazz band-not an orchestra. The chorus spends a good deal of time in the audience. Before the show begins and during the intermission, the audience dances on the stage...
...from the fun of the convention, but it will make it a great deal easier, too. At the last convention, we had to keep our seats for eleven hours at a stretch, and it was terrifically hot! We had nothing to eat but a few sandwiches and stuff like ginger...
...construction "The Faithful Heart" resembles "The Circle", a play which appeared here a few years ago. The prologue introduces us to Miss Gatterscombe and her two nieces, Ginger and Blacky. The latter is in love with a roaming sailor, Waverly Ango, who leaves her to seek his fortune in Africa...
...Ginger. Productions like this incubate and hatch the musical comedy population. Little Everest Smudge, aged 13, watches from the top gallery. Hope surges to his heart. "I'll go on the stage," he whispers to himself. "I could do better than that. God knows I couldn't do worse...