Word: townely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rolling Harlemites have long chuckled over the way the usually prissy white folks' radio has been going to town for a month on Hold Tight. In Harlem Hold Tight's fishy lyrics are considered no ordinary clambake stuff, but a reasonable duplication of the queer lingo some Harlem bucks use in one form of sex perversion. Harlemites chuckled even more last week when, taking a hint from Broadway columnists, radiomen hastily demanded that Hold Tight's, lyrics be bowdlerized...
Meraud Guinness (pronounced Merode Ginnis) was the eldest beautiful daughter of the beautiful Mrs. Benjamin Guinness of New York and London. At the celebrated ball given by the Guinnesses for their servants in 1926 at their town house in London, Meraud and her sister, Tanis, entertained with songs & sketches. They and their innumerable cousins of the rich and fecund Guinness family (brewing) were chief among the Bright Young People whom Evelyn Waugh parodied in Vile Bodies. One of their inventions was the Treasure Hunt-a fad which began by perturbing nocturnal London, traveled to the high schools...
Most of the critics, whether they liked the play or not, ostentatiously confessed ignorance of what it meant. A long, amorphous one-acter, it tells of an unsuccessful poet and his little son who live, not always even from hand-to-mouth, in a California town. Upon them stumbles an aged Shakespearean ham actor (Art Smith), a runaway from the Old Folks' Home, whose playing on a trumpet delights his hosts andthe townsfolk. The old actor finally dies spouting King Lear, and the poet and his son are evicted from their little house, take bravely to the road...
...stone and red-brick plant on Lancaster Pike. Most of their orders come from the automobile manufacturers, who get queer specifications from great and eccentric customers. At present the Derhams are designing a big grey limousine for Joseph Stalin, a duplicate in black for President Vincent of Haiti, a town car for Mrs. Henry B. du Pont and 15 open cars for a Bagdad Moslem who will rent them to Mecca-bound pilgrims...
...work of his friends, Robert Bridges, Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon. Well-printed, heavy, smooth, The Mercury was appreciated by poets because Editor Squire, if badgered awhile, paid real money for poems. The Mercury's eminence grew with well-phrased reviews, contributions by Hardy, Conrad, Shaw, Chesterton, essays on town planning, transport, education. But its circulation stayed around 4,000, disappointing Editor Squire, who once gave his credo...