Word: mayfair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition to these personalities, the Smoker Committee has engaged several outstanding acts, including The Three Whirlwinds, a roller-skating trio; Rose Roland, tap dancer recently featured at the Club Mayfair; juggler Raymond Pike; the Darling Siaters, singing trio; and the Blonde Tappers formerly at the Brown Derby. Al Zimmerman's orchestra will furnish the music...
Rose Roland, dancer of the Club Mayfair, and the Darling sisters, three singing and dancing girls, will add their bit to the festivities. From two Brown Derby come the Blond Tappers, musical comedy stars. In all these acts, the accompaniment will be provided by Al Zimmerman and his orchestra...
...hours after handsome Anthony Eden resigned as Britain's Foreign Secretary, Glasgow haberdashers marked down the Eden-style black Homburg from ?1 to four shillings. In London's West End, however, it still held its own. "It has too much character," said one Mayfair hatter, "to be blown off by a political breeze...
...lives with her" and does not make him feel he is accepting "charity," firmly asserted the Member of Parliament. His wife, who ceased having him live with her in 1936 and tried to cancel a previous financial settlement, sat with averted eyes. So packjammed was the courtroom with Mayfair socialites that some emerged with torn coats...
Although Nuffield will be remembered when many a belted earl and many a British statesman are forgotten dust, Mayfair has been too inclined to dismiss his magnificent philanthropies as vulgar show of wealth. Last week, however, aristocrats could read in the Sunday Express about something they appreciated, Viscount Nuffield's ancestors...