Word: soho
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them in the rooms of Anna May Wong. Like most English pictures, the drama is crudely shaped and conventionally directed. Anna May Wong does the best acting. Gilda Gray does not have much chance to dance. The best shots are incidental ones of sinister little streets in Limehouse and Soho...
...Marx family of seven first lived in two rooms of London's shimmy Soho. Father Marx could not write at home. For years he went to the British Museum reading room to work. He had talked much of force, meaning bombs and guns. Henceforth he was busy building a powder magazine of ideas. He had written: "Theory, too, becomes a physical force when it takes possession of the masses." He also observed: "There can be no talk of a real revolution in such a time as this, when general prosperity prevails...
...London, Fran quickly annexed the cousin of aristocracy who made love to her while Sam attended a dinner given in his honor by his London agent. The dinner was at a Soho restaurant, and yet: There was a horseshoe table with seats for thirty. Along the table little American flags were set in pots of forget-me-nots. Behind the chairman's table was a portrait of President Coolidge, draped with red, white, and blue bunting, and about the wall−Heaven knows where Hurd could have collected them all−were shields and banners of Yale, Harvard...
Outside was the dark and curving Soho alley, with the foggy lights of a Singhalese restaurant, a French bookshop, a wig-maker's, an oyster bar. And the room was violently foreign, with frescoes by a sign painter−or a barn-painter: Isola Bella. Fiesole, Castel Sant' Angelo. But Sam did not look at them. He−who but once in his life had attended a Rotary lunch−looked at the Rotary wheel, and his smile was curiously timid. There was no reason for it apparent to him, but suddenly these banners made him feel that...
...Pittsburgh, the "Strip," the "Hill" and the "Soho" districts have never been pink-tea political neighborhoods. But it was a long time since they had crackled with electioneering gunshots as they did last week. Cars piled with ward heelers, toughs, thugs and rowdy touts plunged through the streets emitting angry pistol potshots. Detectives and police added to the confusion by kicking, clubbing, threatening with gas bombs and riot guns. When gunsmoke cleared, it was found that two innocent bystanders, aged 24 and 9, had been killed "by mistake" and several other persons wounded while the citizens of Pittsburgh were electing...