Word: tenderloin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also dug quite a gash in the hobbyist's pate. Once a beekeeper lost control of some of his pets, who held Studio 36 against all comers for the rest of the night. A guest rooster flew off during a rooftop show, turned up later in the Tenderloin. Only this month, while Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt was guest master of ceremonies in the absence of the Lobby?, Founder Dave Elman, a visiting porcupine wrapped himself around a microphone, cut the show off the air for a half-minute. But none of these little mishaps had any serious aftermath...
...heart of Baltimore's tenderloin is a flashy basement honkytonk called the Oasis. Passers-by are invited to "walk down one flight and save nothing," enter "the worst night club in America," witness "the lousiest shows in the world...
Hamtramck (pronounced Ham-tram-mick) is Detroit's tenderloin for foreign immigrants. It got its municipal charter in 1922 and is today Michigan's seventh city...
Mary Sullivan became a policewoman in 1911, when she was 27, became New York City's Director of Policewomen in 1925. She has guarded women prisoners from the Tenderloin, kept arrested women from committing suicide, taken care of abandoned babies, investigated dance halls, abortionists, matrimonial agencies, posed as a brothel keeper to get evidence against white slavers. She finds detective stories exasperating, thinks girls who answer matrimonial advertisements are taking a chance of getting murdered, writes sensibly, bluntly, complacently about feminine police work...
DINTY MOORE'S--Thick, Juicy sirloin, tenderloin, top o'the round steaks, broiled to perfection over hickory logs. Intriguing atmosphere--calm tranquility. A Ronrico frosted frappe concocted by the adept hands of Joe or Charlie. And then--Zowie...