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...race-the U.S. bartender. Many a man among them will tell heart-breaking tales of better days when he served drinks at the Waldorf in Manhattan, at Boston's Parker House or at Coffee Dan's in San Francisco. Their skill confirms their stories and strong men weep gently into their old-fashioned whiskey cocktails to think such souls are passing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Al Hippodromo | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...from her firm grasp, but there is always that inevitability of fate, the stumbling block of so many good intentions. The excellent reputation that it succeeded in winning for itself by uncovering the wicked snares of Henry Mencken several years ago has apparently been forgotten. But it does not weep alone. Book sellers and publishers whose wares it was the custom of the society to call to the attention of the public will have to seek other means of attaining the hallowed pages of the Evening Transcript. And what is worse, the ready spice of polite dinner conversations will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE CHAINS ARE OFF--" | 3/22/1929 | See Source »

...glory of their age must leave their royal master. Sportsmen sigh, men of fashion are beginning to attend automobile shows and shop girls sob. Everywhere are heard encomiums tinctured with the sorrow of seeing the brilliance of the present fading into the obscurity of the past. Great metropolitan newspapers weep by the column for the glory that once shone on these princely steeds. The world is mourning and grimly faces the dark future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HIS HORSES FOR A KINGDOM | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...clock at the Repertory Theatre, Boston. The program, featuring Christmas music, follows: Christmas Music 1. Good News from Heaven Bach 2. Two Carols Warlock 3. A Carowle for Christmas Day Byrd Two Madrigals and Two Rounds 1. The Nightingale From Pamelia 1609 2. Oaken Leaves From Pamelia 1609 3. Weep oh mine eyes Weelkes 4. Come Sirrah Jack Ho Wilbye Hecula's Lament Bolst Three Choruses from Secular Cantatas Bach Conductor G. Wallace Woodworth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Girls Sing | 12/6/1928 | See Source »

...Scandinavian dialogue men, Olsen and Johnson, comprise the best patter team this reviewer has heard since Joe Brown and partner forsook the Follies for the films. They weep while reciting successive nifties and Mr. Johnson flings himself at the floor with frequent heart-broken abandon. One that panicked the cash customers started: "What would you be if your great-grandfather was a thief, grandfather was a thief, and father was a thief...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/30/1928 | See Source »

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