Word: hylan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course the Harvard Professor may soon be lecturing with amplifiers from his Morris Chair, or even while sunning himself with ex-Mayor Hylan on the Palm Beach sands. Fluency might be enhanced by a little Prince Albert in a Briar Pipe and by evading the facing of dreary rows of bland, apathetic faces. If the Professor be indisposed, each student may put on the record marked Hypnosis--Extra Deep--and have his roommate follow it with English 13 for Deep Sleepers--etc. The possibilities are obviously limitless...
...York by purveyors of milk and poultry. It is an axiom of the chicken business that to sell polluted fowls you must first pollute the city inspectors. This seems to have been accomplished by a poultry graft ring during the administration of the widely known onetime Mayor Hylan, at which time there also chanced to be an epidemic of chicken cholera. Last week Mayor Walker and his friends discussed whether or not they could afford to investigate the thing. It was right in their own party and would rejoice the Republicans. The milk graft, too, was scarcely...
...little comedy slipped quietly in last week, sold a few laughs, and shocked no one. It is a play about a street urchin who posed for a city statue. That was the point of the title. It seems more than probable that the Civic Virtue statue storm of the Hylan administration years ago in New York inspired the endeavor. With Irish street comedy and thin slices of plain folks philosophy it wandered along amiably enough. There were no eminent performers. The opening night a grey kitten strolled unexpectedly into the middle of one of the emotional crises...
impressive sights in the world, some jealous person falsely circulated that Mrs. Hylan remarked: 'Queen, you said a mouthful...
...Hylan never made a remark of that kind in her life. She is able and thoroughly capable of deporting herself in any place as the occasion demands. . . . With all her duties as a good wife and mother, as well as her special interest in her grandchildren, little John Hylan Sinnott and Marie Louise, she was always mindful of her duties as the wife of the Mayor, and few women probably read more than she does or are better posted regarding politics and public affairs or the proper conduct of men and women on all occasions...