Word: kenwood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Having observed the lobbying tactics of fellow-Washingtonians, shrewd Hirosi Saito spends most of his Embassy allowance for "representation" not on balls and champagne for Washington socialites but on highballs and beefsteak suppers for the Press. When he makes a speech it gets printed. When hospitable wags of the Kenwood Golf Club gave him a two-ounce bottle of whiskey marked "A Year's Supply," adding the gift of five toy battleships, not only did Washington columnists recount the hilarity at length but even printed that, four of the battleships hav-ing disappeared, Ambassador Saito tucked the last...
Authors, like most other citizens, like to settle down if they can find a town or countryside where they feel at home. Katharine Brush has found (at least temporarily) her spiritual resting place: she calls it ''Kenwood, Ohio." Her Red-Headed Woman was one of Kenwood's scandalous characters; six of these twelve Other Women live there too. Some of them...
Marilee Mark (real name: Mary Marek), once a Kenwood girl, now a racketeer's moll, brings a check to her dying mother. The check is accepted but not Marilee...
...Williamson, Kenwood's No. i dressmaker, discusses scandalous Manhattan vacationings with a customer, with whose husband she steadily, scandalously vacations...