Word: hashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week 3,300 Manhattanites, including hundreds whom bribery or culture-maddened wives could not have dragged to the ordinary Sunday-night doings, elbowed each other before Radio City's Center Theatre, paid as high as $5.50 a seat to see a hash of items mostly warmed over from past modernist recitals. Three hundred and fifty standees broke the theatre's record, established on the closing night of The Great Waltz. As the formal conclusion of Manhattan's five-week Olympic Dance International, what was old stuff to Greenwich Village longhairs became a tiptop Broadway box-office...
Later performances of the week, Massenet's Manon and Bizet's Carmen, rested with the latterly feeble "French" contingent of the Metropolitan's forces which now consists almost exclusively of Americans, Australians, Brazilians, Italians, Belgians and Germans and produces a corresponding hash of styles...
...Sandoz' Old Jules, which won the Atlantic Monthly $5,000 Non-Fiction Prize in 1935. That unsparing biography of the author's father showed how he had been hardened by years of struggle against neighbors as mean as himself, quick-shooting cattlemen, sandstorms, dishonest politicians. It made hash of sentimental pioneer legends. But it presented a far kindlier version of life on the sod-house frontier than does Slo-gum House, which shows Gulla's successful villainy still ripening in her rotten old age. Overburdened with violence to a point that occasionally touches burlesque, Slogum House...
...sadly disappointed. Immediate consequence was the liveliest riot of the year. First the inmates of the school, armed with knives, sticks, milk bottles and baseball bats, surrounded the main building to demand Dr. Smith's return. Three days later, enraged when the staff got eggs and they got hash for breakfast they revolted again, forced the staff to call police to restore order...
...cities and Toronto, Montreal and Winnipeg, Canada. All stem from a lunchroom started in 1889 on Manhattan's Cortlandt Street by Brothers Samuel and William Childs with $1,600 capital. Farm boys from Bernardsville. N. J., the Childs Boys, irked by eating in dirty hash-houses, decided to offer the public something cheap and clean. While public clamor for sanitary improvement was building up to the Pure Food & Drugs Act in 1906, Childs restaurants mushroomed, their slogan "The Nation's Host from Coast to Coast," their symbol a pretty girl making wheat-cakes in the window...