Word: uptown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said: 'I know. I have just been in Wall Street lunching at the Midday Club. They told me there. I have stopped at the Union Club on my way uptown. They told me there. There is a good chance of an armistice being signed soon and you are sailing tomorrow very secretly for Europe...
...problem as confronts us here in the theatrical district." In New York there are 200,000 people "arriving in the theatre district about the same time, creating a traffic problem found nowhere else in the world." He adds that London has no downtown rush in the morning nor no uptown rush in the evening. This is because the suburbs of London, like those of Boston, radiate from...
...this country to join the Kuzbas colony. In a farewell celebration in Manhattan for 24 men and women who have just sailed for Siberia, moving pictures of Kuzbas were shown in which the colony was represented in a most favorable light. The audience, composed of East Side workers and uptown " liberals " cheered the pictures of model houses, vegetable gardens and smiling colonists, even " Big Bill " Haywood himself. Speakers denounced the newspaper exposure of Kuzbas as a " tissue of bourgeois lies...
...Uptown, West. The Japanese husband of an American woman discovers an incipient love affair between his wife and an old suitor, loves his wife sincerely and deeply, and since their baby has just died in an accident, he decides to go secretly back to Japan. Just as he is on the point of leaving, however, he feels an inner urge to see his wife once more. He steals into her bedroom, strangles its occupant, and, rhetorically celebrating the meeting of mother? and child in heaven, commits hara-kari. The acting is uncommonly good...
That musician who aroused perhaps the greatest discussion during the season in New York is Anton Biloti, the pianist. This young man, an Italian-American reared among the bourgeois respectabilities of University Heights, first gained publicity as a young boy by constructing a miniature trolley line on an uptown hillside for the amusement of himself and the neighborhood youth...