Word: roomed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jane Addams, grey-haired Chicago settlement worker, walking across the dining room of Hull House, slipped, fell, broke her wrist...
...gentleman (James Murray) is a crook who has escaped from a Chinese prison. He copies Nolan's respectable front. Even dull directing, bad dialog and indifferent recording fail to blot out something touching and terrible in their momentary romance. Best shot: tea for two in a Chinese private dining room...
...Room clerks at Manhattan hotels asked each new arrival whether he wanted a room for sleeping or for jumping...
...quiet, smoky room in Manhattan, 32 of the foremost bridge-players of the U. S. met in fours last week to play for the Harold S. Vanderbilt Cup. At a corner table the donor of the cup sat, ruddy, youthful, in a brown business suit. Expert Sidney S. Lenz was sick and could not play, but Wilbur C. Whitehead was there, smiling through pince-nez attached obscurely to his clothing by a neat black ribbon. Present were Ely Cuthbertson and his wife, Josephine, famed as the most dangerous married couple in bridge. All felt that the occasion was significant...
...Chicago, Gilva McClathie's wife haled him to court, sued for divorce. She said her husband sent her to the kitchen every morning, then, with admonitions of "Don't peek," hid her daily 75? allowance somewhere in another room. Mrs. McClathie's complaint was that some days she could not find the money, went hungry...