Word: algonquin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the last discus hurtled into the Soldiers Field sward yesterday afternoon, reminiscences of other track days were beginning to be aired at the Algonquin Club. It was there that the squad of former contestants in I. C. A. A. A. A. meets gathered to discuss their chances in today's old-fashioned cinder events, and to recall their exploits on bicycles which have now become museum pieces and cinders which have long since disappeared...
...first organized event will be a dinner given at the Algonquin Club this evening, at which each diner will receive a certificate setting forth achievements in former meets. After a number of songs led by Henry McDevitt of Dartmouth, the Veterans' Division will be organized. Speeches, mainly reminiscent in character will be succeeded by the solemn process of making out the dope sheet for tomorrow's contest...
...Manhattan theatre dressing room, a tall, angular actor scrubbed furiously at the grease paint on his gaunt features. The curtain had just rung down on his matinee (That Smith Boy) and he* had an engagement even more pressing than seeing a manager at the Algonquin or sipping something cold in a friend's flat. He jerked on his overcoat, flung himself into a taxi, leaped out again at the Seventh Regiment Armory, where he plunged into a dense crowd of humanity and was seen no more, until he emerged in tennis costume on a brilliantly illuminated court surrounded...
...Turrible thurible!" muttered the Philadelphians. All they had got for their quarter was an unpromsing variant of Vanity Fair, with faithful reference to Michael Arlen† in each of the first three leading articles, scattered mentions of Manhattan dramatic critics and their gathering place (the Hotel Algonquin), a theatre page by Ruth Hale...
...play was courageous at least. The author deliberately attacked the shrewd, irreverent group that eats luncheon at the Algonquin Hotel, Manhattan, jests bitterly at life and works. Mr. Seldes, though much in their line of work, has never been a member of the group. When he set out to write an impression of their home life and their hilarity, he put his head squarely in the lion's mouth. Whereupon the lion on the opening night roared happily and closed his jaws...