Word: cafe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pass. In Zagreb railway station one Dr. Rittig, Croatian priest who had protested loyalty to Jugoslavia's new regime, was severely pummeled by an unidentified assailant before boarding his train. All newspapers publishing accounts of bomb findings or of Dr. Rittig's pummeling were confiscated. Seventeen cafe proprietors were marched to jail charged with "encouraging meetings of the so-called 'Frank Party.' " Cables from Jugoslavia explained the Frank partisans as members of a secret Croat nationalist organization, plotting Croatia's restoration to Hungary...
...families settled about Massachusetts Bay, then they rode post coaches to Boston in an hour later they came home from debates across the Charles their feet buried in straw on the floor of a horse car later still in electric street cars they made the trip from Marleave's Cafe in twenty five minutes and now they drop into the subway and are rushed under the river get a drink at a Boston blind pig and are back for their next class. After a couple of centuries of carrying water to the washbowls or splashing themselves at the college pump...
...Brussels as at Paris many a Communist thinks it sport to profane the Sacred Flame at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Sometimes the scalawag does it alone. But more typical is a profanation party which starts in some low cafe. Primed with as much beer as possible, the Communists set out for the Tomb in small groups...
...story revolves about four boys in an orchestra who advance from a $100 a week job at a low dive to a $3000 position at the Little Aregon Cafe, all because of the energetic work of "Freddy" as played by Miss Compson. Then there is the usual mushy ending, but one can discount that in view of the rest of the picture...
Divorced. The Princess Sidi Wirt Spreckels Chakir, onetime Kansas farm-girl, onetime San Francisco cafe entertainer; from Suad Bey Chakir, Turkish potentate, her third husband; at Reno. Grounds: failure to provide. A month ago -he won a $5,000 slander suit from Turkish Princess Chivekar, who mentioned her in a divorce action against Selim...