Word: uptown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Swope: "I have no plans. But I'll have an office uptown and the door will be open always for World men." With characteristic brutal frankness he added: "I don't know anything about Mr. Renaud. But I do feel some regret that no one was taken from the staff to be managing editor...
...skirts.f For Miss Cleary is pretty. Last week she saw screen star Nita Naldi and a prize beauty off for Europe on the midnight S. S. Paris. Flashlight men found her more smartly dressed than the former, prettier than the latter. Under the hard daylight of Watson & White's uptown stockbrokerage office in the Hotel Berkeley, she is thought still prettier...
...shrug of her well-rounded shoulders was worth a big black headline. But that was history by which many a newspaper profited and was shamed. Last week's item was that Mrs. Frances Heenan ("Peaches") Browning went on the stage of the vast Keith-Albee Hippodrome in uptown Manhattan. Adequately clothed, she sang briefly and badly in a vaudeville act, introduced by a sleek whippersnapper. To a few newsgatherers in her dressing room, Mrs. Browning talked intelligently, familiarly; referred to her onetime husband as impersonally as to a street car conductor. "What's the old man doing...
...considerations of $1 to $3 each. If a client wants a really big question answered, he is sometimes instructed to press a $1 bill against the gypsy and blow on it, while the gypsy neatly picks his pocket. For such practices, the police arrested seven gypsy women in uptown Manhattan a fortnight ago, and examined dozens more last week. Be these as they may, palmistry is practiced seriously by many an honest girl...
Architects, contractors followed the blueprints of the Roxy Midway Theatre last week abuilding in Manhattan; other architects, contractors figured the blueprints of the Roxy Mansion for uptown New York. Each theatre will seat 4,000 people, will exhibit the melee of cinema, music and divertissement by which Samuel L. ("Roxy") Rothafel has made his larger (6,200-seat) Roxy Theatre prosper...