Word: shillito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cincinnatians will take note that for the opening scene of her new 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...