Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...down in front of Reuben's restaurant on Upper Broadway, Manhattan, struts a big black man in a longtail coat. He is John Lester Johnson, sparring partner of many fighters, who once was drubbed by Jack Dempsey. Now his life is free and easy; he looks the white folks over as they pass through the door, keeps out the trashy ones, lets in the hungry ones, bows to the haughty ones, spreads his smile. Last week, while he stood displaying his buttons, a taxicab snarled down the street and stopped before him. Doorman Johnson helped two people out, waited...
...clock this afternoon, G. D. Debevoise '26, Captain of the University team, will oppose P. M. Lenhart '27 for the right to enter the final round. Both Debevoise and Lenhart are in the upper half of the draw, and have worked their way to the semi-finals through stiff opposition. Debevoise was seeded number one, while Lenhart was third in the ranking. Today's loser will be the first favored contestant to suffer defeat, H. N. Rawlins '27 and R. S. Wright '26, seeded two and four, respectively, still being among the three contenders in the lower half...
...small bronze plate beside a doorway on upper Fifth Avenue [Manhattan], one may read the name Colgate & Co. This doorway leads to the new Colgate Salon and Showrooms, opened last spring, and to step through it is to step straight into fairyland-at least that is what those who visit it assure us. The Salon is the work of Howard Greenley, famous architect, and contains a complete display of Colgate products...
Naturally, since Britain had quite literally the upper hand of the seas during the War, she was far more anxious to keep the secrets of the M-1 class of submarine out of German hands than to reap a slight advantage from employing "monitor subs" herself...
...acumen than these two: and few ever wrote more distinctly to please the common man. It is greatly to be regretted that a play like "The School for Scandal" which was written originally for the entertainment of the masses should now have become so exclusively the property of the upper crust of the theatregoing public...