January 21th, 1937, Saint Mark’s Place, Manhattan, Maggie’s diary continues: Tex O’Reilly: To the O’Reillys’ for dinner and John’s parents there. His mother a prim-looking woman with hair partied in the middle and a sort of daguerreotype dress buttoned up the front said she wanted her whisky straight and complained she wanted a cigarette.  His […]

January 20th, 1937, Saint Mark’s Place, Manhattan, Maggie’s diary continues: Robert Breen on motorcycle: Walked and read. Discussed with M. naming child Poise Energy as earlier generations named theirs Prudence, Patience and so on…  Nelson in after dinner and we told him the Talley’s story of the man who was playing charades and unscrewed the […]

January 19th, 1937, Saint Mark’s Place, Manhattan, Maggie’s diary continues: Thea Rasche, German Aviatrix: Beautiful snowstorm.  Blew over to Hearn’s for more 94cent wine, and bottle of Dunhill’s rye at 2.24 a quart to try.  Snow drifted on paunch and looked very funny. M. home at night with more Racusin tales.  He’s working on a […]

January 18th, 1937, Saint Mark’s Place, Manhattan, Maggie’s diary continues: Poured all day yesterday so got up late, M. read Capt. Liddell Hart’s Outline of War, and bits from Chesterton’s autobiography while I read another baby book, Dr. Josephine Kenyon’s which Lank Osborn recommended and which is good though I rather prefer Bartlett.  Bakes spareribs. […]

January 16th, 1937, Saint Mark’s Place, Manhattan, Maggie’s diary continues: Made cake, not perfect though frosting excellent. Joneses came over for bridge so beat them. They had busy week because Lump’s cousin was in town. And What Did Her Grandaughter, Yours Truly, do on January 16, 2010: I can’t say I baked a cake today. […]