Word: lined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dapper gentlemen with quick eyes and imperturbable faces frequent, or used to frequent, a little restaurant at 50th Street and Broadway, Manhattan. They are gentlemen with varied interests-dog and horse racing, realty, baseball, politics, lady friends, perhaps a side line now and then in narcotics or stolen securities. They are, or were, interested in almost anything involving money in sums of ten to a hundred "grand" (thousand dollars), and some stimulating element of risk...
Even those who thought the Grenfell innuendoes thin were impressed by the man Edward Charles Grenfell. His father was Governor of the Bank of England. His Great Grandfather was Governor of the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation. He is the fourth of his name in direct line to be an M. P., and the third to be a director of the Bank of England. In London's busy "City" few tycoons are more potent...
...comparatively comic snitches here and there, Author Wallace's sprig of grue was sufficiently funny, novel and grisly to provoke the intended reactions among Manhattan susceptibles. In it, moreover, Nina Gore, daughter of blind onetime (1907-12) U. S. Senator from Oklahoma Thomas Pryor Gore, made a one-line stage debut; Flora Sheffield exhibited a girlish physique as the heroine and Campbell Gullan, with a tykish burr, played the newspaper sleuth...
...Authors. Princess Radziwill, whose Russian property was of course confiscated during the revolution, is now a naturalized U. S. citizen, and can safely draw the line at being buried by a Bolshevik priest. She also draws the line at the League of Nations ("humbug," "rubbish") but not so safely, because her daughter is an ardent employe of the secretariat. The Princess lives in Manhattan, works for an importer, writes occasional amusing intensities for the press...
Three times now George Gershwin has set foot over the line that divides formal and informal music; three times taken his own jazz notions, compounded them seriously and presented them, not for any singing or dancing they might invoke, but for listening purposes only. First was the Rhapsody in Blue and with it much talk of "classical jazz" gospeled by Paul Whiteman. Then came the Concerto in F, but by that time Gershwin had become a creed with many and the Concerto had its premiere in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall with Walter Damrosch and his New York Symphony...