Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Compared with these paragons of political virtue, we ignorant Americans show up pretty sorrowfully. Our idea of a social upheaval is being bounced from a Copley-Plaza "deb" dance. Former generations say that there is no "up-and-go" to us; we may possibly think well, but we never do or say anything about...
...years, the abduction of Furrier Berg was one of the most brazen. It occurred on busy Lindell Boulevard in heavy traffic while Mr. Berg's Negro chauffeur was driving him home from the office. As the car slowly crossed Euclid Avenue, just around the corner from the Park Plaza, two men jumped aboard, displayed revolvers, blindfolded Mr. Berg with taped goggles and forced the chauffeur to continue driving to the outskirts of the city. There they put the chauffeur out, and took their victim to a flat. Soon the first of a series of notes, illiterately penned by Furrier Berg...
...that time the Press was on the job. A "pressroom" was prepared on the mezzanine of the Park Plaza. For the Star, Gang-Reporter Theodore Link, instead of Brundidge, had the bulk of the work. But Rogers of the Post-Dispatch was immediately taken into the confidence of Mrs. Berg and her lawyer. He alone of the newshawks was shown the Berg notes, including this astonishing...
Three guests of honor have been invited to attend the Seventh Intercollegiate Hall on Friday evening before the Harvard--Dartmouth game, and the super Dance to be held on Saturday evening at the Copley--Plaza...
...Brooklyn, Rex R. Fairbanks, 29, was hailed by a young woman in a roadster, asked the way to Park Plaza. The young woman also invited him for a ride, emphasized the invitation with a pistol. In Prospect Park she made Rex R. Fairbanks strip to his underclothes, get out. From one police station to another went Rex R. Fairbanks, in underclothes and hat. unable, for lack of definite police jurisdiction, to find sympathy or help in recovering the money, watch and ring he had lost with his clothes. Finally he went home. In the morning the police wrote...