Word: billingsley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entertainment, long on drinking, atmosphere, names, the bill. Snooty, half filled with celebrities, half with celebrity-chasers, offering Lucullan food but not even the twang of a guitar, is Jack & Charlie's legendary "21." After midnight, debs, young Roosevelts, Beatrice Lillie, Tallulah Bankhead, lesser fry, haunt Sherman Billingsley's cool, decorative Stork Club. More on the Social Register side, less on the Who's Who, and both hard on the purse, are pugnacious John Perona's zebra-striped, rhumba-flavored El Morocco, the newer and elegant Fefe's Monte Carlo...
...sweetest man that God ever made, lying on the sidewalk, all bloodied. . . . They took us over to the police station. And then I want to tell you that the sweetest thing that ever has happened in my life happened right then. I looked up and there was Sherman Billingsley and Mac from '21' standing there with $5,000 cash just in case we needed...
...months ago President Roosevelt took pen in hand, wrote a letter to Representative Samuel Billingsley Hill of Washington...
...summary: YALE 2 HARVARD 1 Blake, g. g., Perry Ward, r.f. r.f., Robie Orth, Billingsley, l.f. l.f., Powell Davidson, Keefe, r.h. r.h., Burbank, Roosevelt Wilson, c.h. c.h., Dorman Raymond, l.h. l.h., Vincent Coerr, Belin, r.o. r.o., Manheimer P. Pond, Carter, r.i. r.i., T. Motley Badger, Keeney, c. c., Hastings, Kelley Lassell, l.i. l.i., E. Motley J. Pond, l.o. l.o., Wood...
...eleven House terms behind him. Representative Treadway of Massachusetts (right) is the ranking minority member, the Republican watchdog who would get Mr. Doughton's chair should parties change. Chairman Doughton is shortly to be translated to the Tariff Commission. His probable successor is stalwart, pipe-smoking Democrat Samuel Billingsley Hill. In the picture the gentlemen are cogitating liquor taxes. They decided to up the spirits tax from $1.10 to $2 per gal. and the House swiftly agreed (see p. 15). The Senate group on ways & means is called the Finance Committee, Mississippi's Pat Harrison, chairman. Besides raising...