Word: schlogel
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...writers began moving in. Best known arty rendezvous is the Dill Pickle Club where bushy-haired Dr. Ben L. Reitman. onetime lover of Emma Goldman, author of The Second Oldest Profession, lectures nightly on sex. The favorite artists' restaurants are the Question Mark, the K-9 Club. Schlogel's in the Loop, Ballantine's on Rush Street and the Round Table in the basement of a butcher shop on Chicago Avenue. Since the great days when Poet Vachel Lindsay. Novelist Theodore Dreiser. Dramatist Ben Hecht, et al. worked in Chicago, Chicago's Bohemia has declined...
...letters. There is the University of Chicago, with its Robert Herrick, whose Homely Lilla brings him back to fiction after several years of silence. There is Evanston, with Keith Preston, the gay columnist and gayer Greek professor, with Henry Kitchell Webster and Edwin Balmer, both popular novelists. There is Schlogel's, chiefly picturesque as a cafe by reason of pre-prohibition memories, where gather the denisons of The Chicago Daily News, where one may find Harry Hanson, the Heywood Broun of Chicago; Ben Hecht, who aims to shock; and last, but oh! not least, Carl Sandburg...
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