Word: oberdam
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Under MISCELLANY, Mar. 9, 1925, you inform an interested public of a knifing match following a "jamboree given by the Oberdam Social Club (Irish)." Your logic may be strong but your line of reasoning is most inconsistent. A fight; ergo Irish! But did it occur to you that the Irish rarely use knives in a fight? The club referred to is not Irish. It is composed entirely and exclusively of Americans of Italian blood. Statements such as the above might be excused if made deliberately; but if you are interested enough in the club to write about it, you should...
...Brooklyn, 1,500 revelers danced till 3 A. M. at a jamboree given by the Oberdam Social Club (Irish), then: sought their hats, their coats. A long 4 line formed. Two revelers altercated for precedence, first with fists, then with knives; the rest, hatless, coatless, likewise fell to. Patrol wagons, ambulances, ended their jamboree. Two seriously wounded young men were borne off to a hospital...
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