Word: thawed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...orchestra was playing "Tell Me, Pretty Maiden" from Florodora when Harry K. Thaw shot Stanford White. The architect, who had started to rise when he saw Mr. Thaw coming toward him, sank back into his chair with an expression of sudden weariness while a tide of slow vermilion spread like spilled wine across the bosom of his evening shirt. That was in June, 1906. Now Harry Thaw has written a book...
...book itself is, as a criticism, unimportant. Mr. Thaw has attempted to illuminate the lack of morals of the late Mr. White rather than his professional achievements. But through the coils and crumples of the narrative, through a catacomb of names, dates, documents arranged with the precise disorder of total recall, shapes emerge like people seen for a minute through a lifting mist, and one has a glimpse of the diversions of one of the most brilliant and perhaps the most debauched of U. S. architects...
...cabaret's chorus dressing-room. That June night, after the theatre, Mr. White had gone to the cabaret. He sat about for a while, then ordered a table and a bottle of champagne in a corner of the room. The Floradora tune was almost over when Harry K. Thaw asked his party to excuse him for a minute. He had just seen Mr. White...
...impulse that had made Mr. Thaw bring a gun along that night must always remain a little vague. It was a regulation Colt six-shooter and he had his hand on it as he threaded his way among the tables toward the place where Stanford White was sitting. That he had a certain amount of justification for what, at that moment, he was about to do, the jury admitted when they handed in their decision, but the allegations he made against the dead architect at the trial, and which he repeats in this book, have never been conclusively proved. There...
...Grover Cleveland and the now Mrs. Thomas J. Preston Jr. to John Harlan Amen, Manhattan lawyer, son of the late Principal of Phillips Exeter Academy; at Tamworth, N. H. Divorced. Fawn Gray, famed a year ago as the night club dancing girl who so alluringly interested senile Harry K. Thaw for many an evening; from one Theodore MacFarland, her groom after a two-day party; at Baltimore. Died. Felix E. Dzerzhinsky, 49, "The Black Pope of Bolshevism." (See RUSSIA, p. 10.) Died. Franklin S. Terry, 64, early (1889) maker of incandescent electric light bulbs; at Black Mountain near Asheville...