Word: minore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Augie," a pioneer in a now overcrowded profession, who added finesse to the art of unmodified murder. He was the first to shudder at the crudeness of a Jimmie Valentine's jimmy and to shrug fastidious shoulders at the alien importations of Dr. Fu Manchu. One of the most minor instances of his genius was the introduction of the shoulder-sling to the East Side, supplanting the unlovely bulge to the back trousers pocket that had been decreed by police custom. He it was who did away with the old gangster's code, under which to pump...
Buffalo baseball nine, champions of the International League. The rabbi knew that the Buffalos were playing that day with the American Association's champion Toledo team for the minor league championship of the world; that Toledo had four wins to Buffalo's one; that Andrew Cohen's mates would suffer mentally and possibly financially if he could not play. Was there no dispensation in Judaism...
...European style where first consideration was good seats for the King and his retinue, the new structure plans to cut down the number of boxes from 54 to 35, to increase total seating capacity from 3,600 to 5,372. In oldfashioned opera houses seeing the stage was of minor importance. Since Richard Wagner introduced epic and dramatic beauties, the importance of the stage has increased. Mr. Urban's plans not only provide superior sight lines for the audience; they also include a stage mechanism of elevators, steel screens, side rostrums, of such modern ingenuity that Max Reinhardt, most...
...world, or a least that particle of it which is represented in the audience at Manhattan theatres, has come a long way in 25 years. Now maidens can see grisly horror, and withdraw between the acts to smoke a cigaret and talk calmly of their minor vices. But when they are in the theatre they can scarcely resist...
...Chicago Tribune appeared a minor item. Nathan F. Leopold Sr., Chicago, was married to Mrs. Daisy K. Hahn, Los Angeles...