Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Streets. The whole will cost some $13,500,000 (graft excluded). One boom in Manhattan riverside real estate has already occurred recently, on the Harlem River bank around 80th Street, under the leadership of Vincent Astor. The new concourse was expected to carry the boom from east side to west side, all around the town...
When one speaks of "Lady Peel'' one correctly refers to either: 1) Ella Viscountess Peel, prim; or 2) Beatrice Lillie, flippant. It was the latter Lady Peel, of course, who recently originated the jest of calling every U. S. citizen residing west of Manhattan a "Middlie Westie...
...Cherry Orchard. Alia Nazimova, the most caricatured actress of her generation, returned, out of vaudeville and the cinemansions of the west, to the Civic Repertory Theatre in Eva LeGallienne's sensitive if not inspired production of Chekhov's last play, The Cherry Orchard. The Cherry Orchard is not especially adaptable to translation; its sly and sad description of improvident aristocracy, vaguely cheerful in the face of ruin, is a little forlorn in a strange tongue and a new country, as its people are forlorn in the airy chaos of change. The Civic Repertory did far better with...
...West Point, which had never beaten Harvard, and only once in 14 games achieved a touchdown, journeyed to Cambridge last week. As soon as the game began, Harvard's Capt. French fumbled his centre's pass which led to an Army touchdown. A kick for the point, another touchdown and a safety brought the Army's total to 15. Harvard scored no points...
...disguises. Now nearing 50, Actor Chaney likes his relatives to call him Alonzo, his real name. He has a married son and has himself been in the show business for 30 years, first in a singing stock company in Colorado Springs, then as a legit-actor touring the Middle West in comedy, tragedy and operetta, and subsequently as wardrobe man, property man, chorus man, transportation agent, scenery-shifter (for Mansfield, Mojeska, Mantell), tourist guide, interior decorator, before his first cinema appearance as an extra in a wild west two-reeler. His face had been smeared with pie in many slapsticks...