Word: gotham
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...with a foreboding of dislocated locution due to alcohol. Such an impression should be banished. " Fantastics" is applied to husbands by Grace George, welcomed as a perfect description by Annie O'Tandy (Laura Hope Crews), mispronounced by her thereafter. The title was later changed to Merry Wives of Gotham...
...founder of this new society had best keep his real identity secret. It is no small matter to fool the hoards of people who read one of Gotham's largest newspapers. New York would probably follow the example of a typical Southern city and administer a coal of far and feathers to the man whose levity has caused it such anxious moments. "Mr. Fillmore's" masterpiece appears to be the best parody since Donald Ogden Stewarts "Cruisn of the Kawa", and an even more subtle piece of work. While New York's liberty is probably safe in this case...
Claire Windsor arrived in New York-her first visit to Gotham. Born in Cawker City, Kansas, she had never been east of the Mississippi before. After seeing Civic Virtue, Mayor Hylan and Greenwich Village she may well be ready to cry, with Vachel Lindsay: "Ho for Kansas, land that restores...
...navies. He buys a line of steamers, comprising the finest boats in the country; but their chief value to him, after all, is in adding to the many titles he already enjoys the new one of Admiral. He drives a team which he is sure cannot be excelled in Gotham, and confidently believes not much inferior to that of Phoebus himself. In these and many other pursuits, besides his own regular and legitimate calling, undertaken less for pleasure than for notoriety, he has succeeded in producing upon the staid plodding men of our day an impression like that...