Word: mayfairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sextet of Lucia (group of six enclosed in an application of 18), Six Mosquitoes, Aristotle, The Green Fan, Erasmus Scroggs, Browning J. A. V., Lionel Lee, Yan, Albert Seewald, George O. N., Jonson and Boswell, The Nobles, Me, Alfred A. Lunt, John M. Hanoe, Osiris, Wireless Willy, The Skipper, Mayfair, O. Henry (single applicant), Bel Enfant, Alfred Augustus Baker, Los Vaqueros, Watt Hour Meter, Caesar, John X. Stevenson, Jaina Square, Mr. Micawber, The Triple Threat, Charles Hawkins, Barnacle, Edward I. A. Stockton Lansdowne, Unus, G. Havaheart, Folly of 1927, Little Applesauce, Ichabod Crane, M. Sans Souci, General Cord...
...Duchess in her sleek, silent motor sped ahead of them to Curzon House, Curzon Street, Mayfair. As the brawny packers unpacked, she gazed approvingly about her at the comfortable Georgian spaciousness of her new winter home. Court gossips have it that she and the Duke found the suite of apartments at their disposal in Buckingham Palace "a bit awkward for entertaining" and White Lodge, "too far out of town." Curzon House is at the very focus of London's fashionable West End, and moreover near Chesterfield House, the town residence of Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles...
...Author. As one might imagine, Michael Arlen is no Englishman. He plays, dines, dances and drinks with the blither young spirits of Mayfair-the social "Mugs" as he has called them. But he is not of, them. Born on the Danube in Bulgaria, of Armenian parents, he was taken to Manchester, as an infant, educated in schools of the "plebs" and in Switzerland. He became a journalist in London, knew poverty and loneliness...
...Author. Cosmo Hamilton was born in London, one of four brothers, of whom three are writers: Sir Philip Gibbs, famed War correspondent and subsequent novelist, Arthur Hamilton Gibbs, who wrote Gun Fodder, and Cosmo, author of plays and novels, among which are The Belle of Mayfair, The Blindness of Virtue, The Blue Room, Scandal, The Silver Fox, The New Poor...
...Rockefeller burnt his tongue with his hot milk at the mere mention of his name." According to his publishers, Author Arlen, aged 25, "likes dancing and baccarat and is a tournament tennis player." He summers between Deauville and Biarritz, winters on the Riviera, springs in Venice, autumns in Mayfair...