Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...food more appetizing, they brought in experts in coffee-making, began buying top-grade butter & eggs, fresher vegetables, etc. To lure more people into Childs, they are planning to spend $1,500,000 on renovation. The team hopes to revive the "Meet me at Childs" saying of the '20s by installing pancake griddles in the windows again-and hiring pretty Jills to flip the jacks...
...first uneasy sense of "unconscious rebellion against my position. That is what comes, I suppose, of sending an impressionable prince to school" (Royal Naval College and Oxford). He admitted to himself that he was happier amid the "contrast and commotion" of the bright magic world of the '20s than in the sheltered "order and perfection" of his father's court. With good grace the Prince performed the required round of royal ceremonials, but he had more fun flying in his own plane, riding in steeplechases, and cultivating a taste for bathtub gin, American slang and the Black Bottom...
...watch out for success." He was not overly concerned with where he stood in the great operatic tradition. He had not discovered anything brand-new, and he knew it. Paul Hindemith, Ernst Krenek and the late Kurt Weill had broken the ground for him in Germany in the '20s. Austrian Atonalist Alban Berg's gloomy Wozzeck had moved opera musically miles from the Verdis and Monteverdis...
Died. Muriel Starr, 62, veteran Canadian-born Broadway character actress, who enjoyed her greatest success touring Australia with American hit shows (Madame X, The Thirteenth Chair) during World War I and the early '20s; of a heart attack after her first-act performance in The Velvet Glove; in Manhattan...
...crew in & around Greenwich Village and recorded his first oldtime jazz in more than ten years. Exchanging his tux for shirt sleeves and slacks, Drummer Krupa, who had his first taste of jazz from Louis Armstrong and the New Orleans Rhythm Kings back in the '20s, said with a big grin, "It's my first love. It's kicks...