Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harlem section of New York, usually so peaceful and law-abiding, received a severe jolt. About 4 :30 o'clock in the morning when "Bill" Brennan, ex-pugilist and proprietor of the Club Tia Juana Cabaret, was eating a good-night meal with his sister (stage name Shirley Sherman) and with his old friend, James Cullen, a State trooper, a man stepped into the cabaret, tapped Brennan on the shoulder, said : "Bill, can I see you a minute?" Brennan, knowing many, but known to many more, did not recognize the man, but, excusing himself from his sister...
...Sailors Snug Harbor, where a thousand old seamen find refuge and a little security after many storms; the Bowery Mission; the cheap, grudgingly-charitable men's hotel that Mr. Dreiser calls the "wayplace of the fallen;" old Samuel Clampitt's junkyard on 135th Street by the Harlem River, with its stuttering hunched proprietor who kept savage Great Danes in his yard-Mr. Dreiser can take you to them all and many other singular nooks beside. A guide who has had extraordinary opportunities for observing every changing aspect of a great and diverse city for more than IS years...
...PREFACE TO LIFE-Edwin Justus Mayer-Boni ($2.50). The candid autobiography of a youth whose physical and spiritual adventures touch upon Harlem and Hollywood, "William Blake and Joseph Conrad, manufacturers, magnates, movie-stars, sweat-shop-workers, policemen, poets, editors, reporters. The growth of a mind, the rise of an intelligence, the development of an interesting and hostile point of view. Well written, fertile of ideas, suggesting one of the many possible answers to the query: " What's wrong with civilization in general and American civilization in particular...
Sportdom listened with suspicion to Lynch's tale. Burman scurried to the Boxing Commission, "weighed in" properly, was declared world's bantamweight champion. Promoter Tex Rickard went scouting in Harlem for a substitute for Lynch, returned to Madison Square Garden with a spindly Jew named Abe Goldstein...
Pitchers McQuillan, Nehf and Watson, Catcher Gowdy-the main battery strength of the Giants-came from the Boston Braves. Of the Yankees, Pitchers Pennock, Jones, Hoyt, Mays and Bush, Catcher Schang, Basemen Dugan and McNally, Short Stop Scott, and Fielders Ruth and Smith were sold down the Harlem River by the Boston Red Sox. Placing Ruth on first base, and Mays and Hoyt in the outfield, the New York Americans would have virtually a championship team bought from Boston...