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Word: lisenco (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ravanni, Lisenco, Mike Scolleri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Mar. 17, 1924 | 3/17/1924 | See Source »

...evening in the "Merry Grotto," an East Side dance-hall which provides partners for unattached men, under the guise of giving them "dancing lessons." According to the author, she is "innocent" in spite of the fact that she is the mistress of both Pete Ravanni, the proprietor, and Max Lisenco, his assistant. But she is discontent with this lot and decides to throw them both over. The very evening she does this, "Crazy Man" appears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crazy Man | 3/17/1924 | See Source »

This evening, however, he craves a new experience. So he tries entering the Merry Grotto in workingman's clothes. He is thrown down the stairs by Ravanni, Lisenco and Mike Scolleri, a bruiser who runs the cloak room of the establishment. He comes back again, is again thrown out. This happens six times. As he mounts the stairs for a seventh time, he discovers that the defense has been worn out by his persistence. By this time he is an enthusiastically worshipped hero. Especially to Selma, who sees in him an ally to her own determinations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crazy Man | 3/17/1924 | See Source »

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