Word: mecca
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Into Manhattan's Mecca Temple last week crowded several thousand New York City Republicans to pick a party candidate for Mayor. There was only one avowed candidate-Congressman Fiorella H. La Guardia-after Congresswoman Ruth Pratt had withdrawn because she would not "scramble for votes." So, as Hobson's choice, the convention designated Mr. La Guardia to make the race against Tammany's James John Walker...
...this book of witty, provocative and occasionally Rubelaisian episodes in the life of Capri. And Col. Fitzhugh L. Minnegerode assures us that this Cerio is known as "Tutelary genius of Capri," and Capri, in turn, is known as "Cerio's Property." Capri is also known to some as "the Mecca of Malcontents" but at all events, here are four men who feel that Capri's air should be known to all the world even at the cost of trouble to themselves. In other words, Mr. Young, assisted by Norman Douglas, Louis Golding and R. R. Reynolds, have translated Cerio...
When the 70 units competed, they met in Manhattan's Mecca Temple. There they spent the better part of a day determining that the Concordia Society of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., was the best Class A chorus of all. Liederkranz of Scranton, near neighbors to the Wilkes-Barrians, won second prize. Class B Winners were the B. & O. Glee Club of Baltimore and Ottawa Temple Choir...
...Court of St. James once more fills the columns of the society page as the flower of democracy runs the gauntlet of diplomacy, privilege and connection to reach the end in view. Journalists "view with alarm" the costly pilgrimmage and tales run rife of the "inside path" to the Mecca of upper crust...
...transportation of stage properties to New York was effected through the medium of privately engaged lorries in the service of the Club. Within four feet of its destination, the Mecca Temple, the van was stopped by members of the Stage Hands Union, and upon the protest of this latter group appealing to the regulations necessitating union labor, the properties were removed from...