Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thursday passed cheerily for the three men in the plane, and Thursday night. Friday morning they were west of mid-Atlantic. Their drinks were still warm. Weather was cold and foggy...
...village lad went West, to teach physics in the University of Nebraska, but, when he branched out into contracting, his star rose in the East and he definitely made Manhattan his base of operations in 1890. From his great house on Riverside Drive he can look across the mile wide Hudson River and perhaps dreams of bridging it. With "J. G.," who has now turned 60, lives "J. D.," his son, James Dugald White, 38. "J. D." is a director in all three of his father's companies, but avoids the connotations of "engineer" and describes himself...
Diamond Lil. Propped up under the armpits by a dress that might have been designed by the stage carpenter, Mae West played the role that she had written about a bygone queen of Manhattan's underworld. Diamond Lil was a harlot whose heart was as big and golden as the enormous swan shaped bed that stood in her elaborate cubicle above Gus Jordan's saloon and brothel. None the less, she was hardboiled; when a Salvation Army captain came to save her soul, she planned to seduce him and when a lady threatened a double cross, Diamond...
...Actress West plays her heroine with an eloquent and minatory calm, which contrasts well with the chryselephantine magnificence of her appearance. There are oldtime tough songs, outmoded slang words ("moll," "dick," "corset"), and singing waiters, one of whom yodels, in the musty barroom, the same song with which he recently amused Manhattan cabaret patrons. Diamond Lil is an entertaining melodrama...
...French, Jr. '29, John de Laittre '29, James Lawrence, Jr. '29, T. G. Moore '29, W. W. Neff '29, C. McK. Norton '29, John Parkinson, Jr. '29, E. W. Sexton '29, H. F. Schwarz '29, R. A. Stout '29, A. R. Sweezy '29, John Tudor '29, R. G. West '29, W. S. Youngman...