Word: prytania
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...carnival duties. As. Rex, King of the Carnival, he wore a white satin suit, high white kid boots and bejeweled cloth-of-gold robes. But at 7:30 a.m.-an hour and a quarter later than usual-he was on the job in white surgeon's gown at Prytania and Aline Streets. Dr. Ochsner's real job is director of Ochsner Clinic...
...woeful tide, Mrs. Gilmer is up at 7 a.m. With a stenographer and her companion-secretary, she zips through her daily grist with a sharp eye out for the "angle" that will cue a sermonette. Every afternoon her chauffeur drives her through Audubon Park and back to the swank Prytania Street apartment. Her stock wisecrack, when showing guests her fine Louis XIV bed: "I'll bet I'm the only respectable woman who ever slept...
...this line of hardheaded domestic common sense has been nationally syndicated by the Philadelphia Public Ledger's feature bureau. And since the Hall-Mills trial of 1926, Dorothy Dix has devoted herself exclusively to her perplexed public. To her handsome town house on New Orleans' shady Prytania Street now go some 500 daily letters, carried from the post office by her Negro chauffeur in an ample, well-worn market basket. Every inquiry is answered by letter or in print. Dorothy Dix spends the morning sorting mail, penciling notations on routine queries to be replied to by her devoted...
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