Word: mayfair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...train popped Joe Kennedy, face red as ever, to race through the echoing grand concourse of Washington's Union Station. His Mayfair chums would have been horrified, for it was breakfast time and spectacled Mr. Kennedy was still wearing last night's evening clothes...
...paying a stiff "corkage charge" or they leave advance orders at the club to have it sent in from wholesalers and "stored" until the guest arrives. The cheapest wine comes to $4 per bottle by this system, the cheapest whiskey $5. In the World War II bottle party boom, Mayfair clubs are now offering elaborate and sexy floor shows (see cuts), causing some wonder at London's Picture Post's observation that "the atmosphere is rather like that of a family party where the younger girls are in tearing spirits and occasionally do the splits or snatch...
...floor show. Dancing isn't too marvelous. . . . The Brown Derby-about the same as the foregoing-a little less expensive. . . The Casa Manana nice setting with good music and food make this a good bet. Probably will be crowded as it isn't murderous in its prices. . . . The Mayfair: about the same as the others, a little noisier, and more expensive. . . Crawford House-to be avoided if possible. Slumming that isn't even fun. . . By the way, we almost forgot the two swanker of the Boston night spots, the Fox and Hounds and the newly created Zero Hereford. Music...
...that classic scene in the men's room of a small night club, where he is coaching his successor as washroom attendant and telling him the chance of promotion, he ad libbed, "Why, if you click in this joint, you may work up to some four-sinker like the 'Mayfair...
...court recessed, Mayfair recalled that Toffi is technically no princess. Morganatic and never recognized by the ancient Hungarian House of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst was her marriage to one of its scions, from whom she has been divorced for years. In London she was accepted socially by a few, including Margot, Countess of Oxford and Asquith; later clung on the fringes of Lady Astor's so-called "Cliveden Set." An active intrigante, during the mission to Prague of Viscount Runciman, busy Toffi was present at at least one tea party at which she and an assortment of Germans...