Word: merriment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While scores & scores of guests at Belle Livingstone's "Mecca of Merriment" (TIME, Nov. 10) drank, ping-ponged, played miniature golf and rigadooned one night last week, a group of determined individuals muscled their way past the doorman. One of them interrupted the orchestra, seized a megaphone and-as every one acquainted with the place had expected would happen some day soon- announced: "Ladies and gentlemen, the next number of the program will be a raid. The place is in the custody of the Federal Government." Hostess Livingstone fled across her wee golf course, tried...
Three days after election Democratic House Leader John Nance Garner of Texas received that telegram. His red cowboy face twisted up into an even redder knot of merriment. "N. L." was, of course, his great & good friend Nicholas Longworth. Republican Speaker of the House. The "car" was the dark blue Packard limousine (1928 model) assigned by the Government to the House's presiding officer. Because the car would pass to him if the Democrats should control the House and elect him Speaker, Congressman Garner had often joshed Speaker Longworth about "our car." To Speaker Longworth he telegraphed this reply...
Last week many a famed Manhattan nightclubber received an astounding form letter. Excerpts: "You are cordially invited to attend the gala opening of the Fifty-Eighth Street Country Club. . . . If you found a soupçon of enjoyment in my former place . . . in this Mecca of Merriment you will behold . . . the titillating tintinnabulating secret excitations of the Congo and flesh-shuddering, goose-creeping horrors of the Grand Guignol!" The letters-there were two editions-were signed: BELLE LIVINGSTONE...
...shrewd businesswoman, conducted a "salon of culture, wit and bonhommie" on Manhattan's Park Avenue - a lurid house of night where people sat on cushions on the floor and drank until daylight. Federal officers raided it, arrested the proprietress and three bartenders. Visitors to her Mecca of Merriment last week saw Miss Livingstone in a black dress dotted with symbolic sunflowers, saw also a large house, three of whose floors are occupied respectively by dancehall and stage, salon and bar, ping-pong and Tom Thumb golf rooms. Specially designed murals of toping fauns and bare-breasted ladies had been...
...struggling with French maids and telephones, plagued by a Coca-Cola-guzzling husband, turns in a businesslike, applausible performance. Lost Sheep. If a Methodist minister should unwittingly rent a house which had but recently been evacuated by a procuress and six employes, the situation might contain much potential coarse merriment. Playwright Belford Forrest, having conceived of such a plan, made sure that his preacher was sufficiently naive to suspect nothing for at least three acts of a play which he called Lost Sheep. Rev. William Wampus, awaiting the completion of a new parish house, moves with his wife (Marie Cecilia...