Word: delicatessen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...between the lines of items concerning adolescent bandits, schoolboy murderers and other such. It tells about a boy (Eric Linden) who, failing to win a high-school prize for oratory, takes up with bad companions, patronizes dance halls and chop-suey dens. While drunk he kills a friendly old delicatessen dealer. At the trial he dramatizes his predicament, undertakes to conduct the defense of himself & accomplices. He repents, too late, when he has been sentenced to death. Good shot: Eric Linden borrowing a dime from the prison attendant to give his small brother when he says goodbye...
Somehow the doughty diplomat staggered across the street to Achilles Orphanos' delicatessen store where the alarm was sounded. An ambulance carried the chief representative in the U. S. of the Government of Salvador to the Emergency Hospital where 27 stitches were taken in his head. X-rays showed a fractured skull...
What does Edward of Wales think of the British "dole"? Officially no member of the British Royal Family has thoughts upon so controversial a subject. But in Manhattan last week one Alphonso A. Cella, genial proprietor of a flourishing Sixth Avenue delicatessen store, told the world what H. R. H. thinks of the dole...
...Atlantic City, N. J., David Thomas lost control of his automobile, drove it through the window of a delicatessen shop. The crash unseated him, hurled him head foremost into a barrel of pickles, submerged to the hips. He was fined $370 for driving while intoxicated...
...book, Fannie Hurst has taken care, as is her custom, to have a letter-perfect local nomenclature- Alms & Doepke, Shillito's, Pogue's, Rook-wood Pottery, Eden Park, Avondale. Her story starts in the '90s, when "Over the Rhine" boasted many a beer-garden and German delicatessen dish. Ray Schmidt was good-looking, a blonde whom drummers, even happily married, invariably tried to lure into sin. Everyone liked her and thought the worst. In a day when beer was plentiful and automobiles a stock joke, her wasp-waisted, full-bosomed, generously rounded figure tantalized the males...