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Night spot rendezvous of debutantes, collegians, actresses, writers, celebrities, exhibitionists, setting for many a devastating crack, many a feeble, alcoholic punch, is Manhattan's famed Stork Club. Two and a half years ago it became the setting for a labor brawl. Smooth, drawling Manager Sherman Billingsley fired nine waiters because, said he, they were incompetent. Incompetence included: garlic breaths, manicuring their nails in the restaurant, ordering drinks for customers, then drinking them themselves, getting cozy with patrons, not keeping tables clean...
from "After the Brawl," editorial in Colliers's for March...
...different. Shaking their fists, the longshoremen bellowed at the crew to haul down the Soviet flag. "Since Russia attacked Finland, the workers of Rumania know that 'Democracy' is used by the Soviets only as a catch word!" explained the longshoremen's leader. To avert a bloody brawl King Carol's police had to rush to the waterfront, arrested several dock workers...
...star language student, tutored for some years, took up with Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists in 1933. He became Mosley's speechifying director of propaganda. In 1937, he was kicked out, formed Britain's National Socialist League. As a memento of one Fascist brawl in Great Britain, Joyce carries the scar of a razor slash from mouth to right ear. The British Catholic Herald, after considerable inquiry among Joyce's former associates, stated flatly: "Lord Haw-Haw is William Joyce." The Herald further reported that Joyce had been brought up a Catholic...
...curious confidant of the Queen was the febrile, effeminate Lord Hervey, whose microscopically detailed and exhaustingly brilliant Memoirs are one of Quennell's main sources. When Frederick Louis, the Prince of Wales, had a Hanoverian brawl with his father and mother, Hervey took pleasure in infuriating the Prince by composing long letters of wounded virtue to be copied and sent by the Prince's discarded mistress...