Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excellent waffles in the Rue Pigale some four years ago. Her waffles became a fad, and so many rich waffle eaters washed the golden morsels down with amber champagne that, today, Florence Jones te more purseful than many of her clients. The fact that this handsome Negress, genuinely from Harlem, keeps the smartest boite de nuit* in Paris, was evident again last week, when His Royal Highness, 27-year-old Prince Henry of Britain, strolled into Chez Florence, atop Montmartre, at 3 a. m., with a highly unofficial entourage...
College girls, high-school children, blind people, young Hebrew men and Negroes were among the 17 groups of contestants. They came from Boston; Harlem; Memphis, Tenn.; Derita, N. C.; Tulsa, Okla.; and many another far-flung spot...
...Author Carl Van Vechten, Caucasian, who took up Negroes as an esthetic fad, then pictured them as depraved, in a book full of Harlem dives, dope peddlers, degenerates...
...Bankers' Club, sat other potent financiers and many a confident layman. They were the committee which is raising $1,500,000 to "Put the Cross in the Skyline"-a cross no less than 36 feet high, "visible for 26½ miles in every direction" including hardbitten Harlem and Hoboken...
...reality married to him. He accommodatingly marries her and clears up the situation. The French are a funny nation, but lately such businesses as assignations between unmarried ladies and gentlemen in romantic chateaux, peculiarities of love, and the like, find so many counterparts in the Bronx and even Harlem that they no longer intrigue the U. S. playgoer...