Word: notebooks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week in Manhattan by her adopted daughter, Irma. It had been written six years ago in Moscow, just before she left by airplane for Paris on a honeymoon. At the chance suggestion of a friend, she scribbled it in pencil on a page torn out of a little notebook. It said: "This is my last will and testament. In case of my death I leave my entire property to my husband, Serge Yessenin. In case of simultaneous death, then such property to go to my brother, Augustin Duncan...
Policemen. In the downtown district a 75-gallon still was raided. A little black notebook was seized. Acting on the contents of this book, District Attorney Monaghan summoned 23 policemen to his office. They were Capt. Charles Cohen of the 20th & Berks Streets Station, seven sergeants, three detectives, twelve patrol men. For hours Mr. Monaghan was a menacing interlocutor; it was then that he lost sleep. Several of the catechized broke down, one wept convulsively. All were arrested on bribery and extortion charges. Toward midnight they lined up in the City Hall corridors. They marched to jail, ironically...
Neat as a pin.... hair brushed, tie straight, collar pinned, but slightly too large.... coat and trousers immaculately clean and as well pressed.... small black notebook in hand in which are inscribed, no doubt, every impression, every appointment and much more.... pant legs spiralling down to worn weatherbeaten heel-worn shoes...
...Avenue, between 42nd and 40th streets, Manhattan, on almost any summer day of recent years likely as not you were the object of a penetrating glance from a young woman standing on the steps of the New York Public Library. Having glanced, she probably made a mark in the notebook she held in her hand. She may have noted the color of your stockings, the cut of your suit, the length of your skirt, the shape of your hat. You had become a statistic...
...train stopped, and the Boy Scouts rushed forward to greet the man who stepped with sure tread from the car. Cameras clicked jerkily; the young shouted their welcome; reporters, notebook in hand, mused on childish love of deifying. The Bremen flyers were hailed with more ceremony, but with no more sincerity than was this man. If he received no key to the city; if no regal automobile waited him; if most of the Tremont Street crowds went their way unwitting, still the adulation and joy of greeting were present, and only the means for expressing them rightly won lacking...