Word: algonquin
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...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...
When one sees people peering about in the halls and corridors of the small Algonquin Hotel, Manhattan, one may be almost sure that they are peeling their eyes for a glimpse of a literary lion or a theatrical celebrity. For there it is the habit of that kind of people to meet...
Perhaps it was for such a glimpse that a reporter was staring in the lobby of the Algonquin last week. He must have received a first-rate shock, for there he perceived before him no literary lion, no theatrical celebrity-but Commander Evangeline Booth of the U. S. Salvation Army and two gentlemen...