Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last fortnight bleachers had to be erected in a New York courtroom to accommodate 86 defendants in a poultry-selling racket (TIME, Oct. 21). Last week the New York authorities started action against another, similar game, common to all big cities-"coöperative" selling of loose (unbottled) milk. The New York milk racket was notable and illustrative by virtue of its central figure, a lank, loose-knit individual named Larry Fay. First taxicabs, then night clubs were Larry Fay's game, the latter in collaboration with famed Mary Louise ("Texas") Guinan. Loose night clubs are crowded...
...unceasing efforts of Farrell that the veteran trainer was kept alive while en route to the United States, and when the liner docked in New York he was rushed by motor ambulance to Boston, where he died soon after his return...
Margaret Ayer Barnes wrote the stage adaptation of Miss Wharton's best seller and she follows the original throughout with few exceptions. The story is the narrative of Countess Olenska's love affairs, both in Europe and in New York. As the play opens the Countess has just returned from Europe after a-shipwrecked first marriage. She settles down on Twenty-Third Street ready to take up again New York social life...
...York commission for the suppression of unnecessary noise would find a fertile field for research in the vicinity of Harvard Square. Nearly every variety of irritating clatter that could be devised to disturb the weary student or the would-be sleeper has been practised and brought to the ultimate degree of boisterous refinement by certain Satan-inspired undergraduates...
...sing-song auto horn throughout the length of Mt. Auburn Street just as the majority of the residents of Randolph, Claverly and the other Mt. Auburn buildings are about to surrender themselves to the soothing to embrace of Morpheus, merits a drastic cure. For the benefit of New York's commission, a variation of the Chinese torture is suggested, whereby all these destroyers of peace be sentenced to padded cells, where they may slowly starve to death to the tune of a thousand mixed auto horns...