Excerpts from diary telling of fanciful meetings, parties and general jamborees with notious headline characters.
The New Yorker, July 11 , 1931 P. 15Excerpts from diary telling of fanciful meetings, parties and general jamborees with notious headline characters.
By Frank Sullivan The New Yorker, July 11 , 1931 P. 15Excerpts from diary telling of fanciful meetings, parties and general jamborees with notious headline characters.
The Presidents are lampooned as monarchs (Zachary the Rough and Ready, Franklin the Debonair); the Presidency is renamed the Misterhood; fanciful contending parties, such as Uniboodlists and Multiboodlists (an echo of Unity Christianity and its Trinitarian competitors?), are invented; and sexual shenanigans not entirely fanciful are numbered among the Presidential acts.
With the New Year approaching and everyone getting ready for fanciful black-tie parties we looked back at the hottest, eye-popping, jaw-dropping most instagram-worthy parties and events in 2015 that did not require a tie.
More than 110 years after John Jahn opened his first ice cream parlor on Alexander Avenue in Mott Haven in the Bronx, his empire, which once numbered nearly 30 restaurants, is down to a single operation whose existence owes little to fanciful sundaes, birthday parties or turn-of-the-century décor.
At Bates, beards are sprouting for next month's Mustachio Bashio, an annual party celebrating fanciful facial creations.
And maybe an older student, who hasn't graduated in ten years, telling fanciful tales about the "party pills" and water pistols full of tequila of yore, and being told he's making it all up.
The weeks leading up to the Oscars are a fanciful slog of cocktail parties, luncheons, lesser award shows and industry screenings, all of which I chronicle daily in my role as the Carpetbagger columnist.
