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Pick adjectives as you would pick a diamond or a mistress. Too many are dangerous. Because one adjective is as revealing as a lightning flash, don't think that ten will make the story ten times as good. There is a law of diminishing returns.

Stanley Walker

The night club had a curious and diverse appeal. To some it was a sex-exciter. To others, frequenting a night club and throwing away money was a form of exhibitionism...wealthy men from out of town visited the clubs for appalling orgies of spending and drinking, and most of them seemed to think it was worth the cost.

Stanley Walker

Stanley Walker

Stanley Walker

Born: 1898

Died: 1962 (aged 64)

Bio: Stanley Walker was an editor of the New York Herald Tribune in the first half of the 20th century.

Known for:

The Night Club Era (1933)
Mrs. Astor's Horse (1935)
City Editor (1934)
Dewey, an American of this century (1944)
Pipe Dreams: Book Two

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