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There arose the seemingly simple question of what is a night club. Lord Dewar, whiskey man, defined a night club as a place where, when the police appeared at the door, members and guests disappeared out of the window...
...with a couple of his old friends, exchanging yarns of Dublin, listening to Marc Connelly's jokes, repeating the famous parodies of Oliver Gogarty, being distinctly human and entirely at home. He had arrived very late, and it had taken a great deal of shouting out the window to bring him finally to the right door. Traffic in New York puzzles him. He now gets on a street car with an address in his hand and, as he says, "counts". As long as he doesn't cross a bridge, he knows that...
Suggestions have been plentiful as to the manner of its disposal. Proposals have been made to cut it down in segments, to take it out through a window or to dig a hole around the bottom and let it drop. That which received most popular support was to leave the derrick where it is, using it either for a flag pole or a central chimney...
Last week, actors of high and low degree, literati, publicists crowded into the Church of the Transfiguration (for that is its official name), listened to John Drew; Canon Dwelly of Liverpool Cathedral assisted at the unveiling of a window to the memory of Joseph Jefferson. On it the idiom is inscribed...
...continues to be one of the best-selling books in several years, and long after its original publication. Meanwhile, Miss Ferber, in a study, newly acquired, is at work on a new novel of Chicago life. She works as hard every day as the man who stands outside my window now and makes life miserable for me and doubtless for himself with a steam rivetter. She works harder. The period when a novel is being written, for a writer with an artistic conscience, is apparently one of the most difficult things imaginable. Doubts assail, characters will not behave, words will...