Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wrote last week of the uneven brick streets of Baltimore [TIME, Sept. 5, p. 11]. It has befallen my lot in recent years to examine street paving in various cities from Los Angeles and San Francisco, Chicago and St. Louis, Detroit and Cleveland, to Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. Baltimore has by far the best paved streets and the cleanest streets. Philadelphia has the worst paved and dirtiest streets, with St. Louis a close second. WM. H. THOMSON...
...this edifice. Said he: "They must have passed the hat around several times to build all this." Of the catacombs, the Mayor remarked: ". . . Nice fresh tombs, 2,000 years old. . . . Wish we could find a few cata- combs in New York's subsoil. It would save us a lot of money when we build subways...
Mister Romeo. Taking up with the ladies of the burlesque shows is a lot easier than letting up, is the experience of another doddering Romeo of the farce-ways. J. C. Nugent makes him a pathetic fool, but what really startled the audience was the fact that this poor business was, in part, the work of Playwright Harry Wagstaff Gribble who once wrote a good play, March Hares...
...Field's, 1926) under the title "Aspiration," it was selected out of 480 others for special praise and reproduction by the Art World of Chicago. Wrote Lena McCauley, art critic of the Chicago Evening Post: "It is a delightful jumble of Gauguin, Pop Hart and Negro minstrelsy with a lot...
...mistake. In Gilbert & Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance the chorus sings: "A policeman's lot is not a happy...