Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cotton's Boast. The State Department has been working cooperatively with the Navy in an effort to attain specific agreements as to the Navy's needs. Representing the State Department has been Undersecretary Joseph Potter Cotton, onetime Manhattan lawyer. Out of these State-Navy conferences last week came this story: Undersecretary Cotton, impatient with the Navy's attitude on cruiser design and gun effectiveness, remarked across the council table: "If I could not design a cruiser with six-inch guns that could whip a cruiser with eight-inch guns, I'd go and jump...
...once a famed young tosspot. Now he confines himself to sherry, champagne His black silk stock, early Victorian wing collar and frock coat attract stares. An English wisecracker, he likes to pin actors with a phrase. Besides the Express, he writes for the London Bystander, for Manhattan's slangy Variety (stage trade journal whose language Editor Sime Silverman defends on the grounds that Variety caters "strictly to hams and theatre managers and acrobats...
...established monthly Musical Digest. Ubiquitous Pierre Key, wide-acquaintanced Editor of the monthly, was revealed as Editor of the weekly too. Chatty in tone. Top Notes aimed to be informative; it carried news and comment on musical affairs, radio, musical comedy. Pre-natal influence noted: The New Yorker, Manhattan smartchart...
...high building on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue is a tiny office upon whose door was painted last week the legend: Tail Waggers' Club. Inside sat Lorance Miller, former Kennel Editor of the Sportsman, now American Secretary to the Tail Wagger-in-Chief. All day Miss Miller now dockets dog-identification cards, reads eager letters from subscribers, receives contributions. Her mother, Daisy Miller, famed for her radio dog-talks, is executive secretary of the U. S. branch of the Tail Waggers' Club...
Will Marion Cook, the Negro Schubert, is fiery, erratic, race-proud. Hearing young Taylor, ambitious, hang on a high note, he kicked him out of Manhattan's famed Clef Club (negro musical organization), shouting: "No can can be a niggah if he sings my music wrong...