Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fearing citizens were indignant, agnostics surprised, atheists delighted, at a letter mailed and made public last week by one Freeman Hopwood of Manhattan who signed himself "General Secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, Inc." The letter...
...Norman Klein told his reasons to the American Press (newspaper trade journal). Said he: "Newspapering is a young man's game. . . . And a newspaperman is young only as long as he can successfully kid himself. I kidded myself because I kept on thinking smugly that I was Somebody. . . . [ Manhattan newspapermen] love to come into the office of a morning to remark. -met Noel Coward at Condé Nast's roof party last night and Noel tells me -.' Or, '- So John D. Jr., was standing in the stern of Vincent Astor's yacht...
Newspaperman Klein, who is now 33, did not retire into the hills of Connecticut to write novels. Instead, he joined the staff of Benton & Bowles, Manhattan advertising agency...
...National Horse Show in Manhattan...
Boyhood in Manhattan. "I remember as a small boy going with my father to the Atlantic Garden and listening to the lady musicians. . . . My sister and I were given chocolate to drink, and huge slices of cake, while the elders drank their beer. . . . When I was ten years old, I became an altar boy. ... I practically lived in the fire engine house, . . . rode on the hose cart. . . . Gifted with a good loud voice, I was paid to read off the ticker tape on the night of the Sullivan-Corbett fight. . . . We used the bowsprit and rigging of ships...