Word: heyday
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...diminishing population, and . . . the rise of other and stronger bosses in Brooklyn and The Bronx. . . ." Their mobsters generally remain two-dimensional. One who comes terribly to life, however, is slug-faced Arthur Flegenheimer, who as "Dutch Schultz" went from beer-running to the numbers racket and in his heyday treated Tammany Boss James J. Hines as his stooge. If Gang Rule In New York contained nothing else, it would be note worthy for preserving the full stenographic record of Schultz's deathbed ravings in Newark City Hospital on Oct. 24, 1935, after a hole had been blown...
...omitted, however, I think, one revealing thing about the man. You did not mention the monument Carl built to Flagler, Carl's also imaginative predecessor, also pioneer of Florida's "pleasure dome." Most of Florida appears to have forgotten Flagler; Carl in his heyday...
Could his seven-year-old legs, never very sound even in his heyday, stand up for a mile-and-a-quarter...
...served on the staff of the old Life when it was in its heyday. His widely syndicated "Marge" satirized the hip-flask, raccoon-coat days of the late twenties. "Marge" died with the repeal of prohibition and the market crash, and Held obtained a position with the New Yorker, for which he did a series of wood cuts reflecting "on the good old days" and "old American subjects...
...years since Lewis was a miner. *In his heyday, in an abandoned committee room known as "The Boar's Nest," Garner regularly nicked Nick Longworth, Ogden Mills, Joe Cannon-all since dead. His biggest winnings in any one session: $15,000. Biggest loss in any one night: $6,800. Average over the years: unknown but believed very good...