The Prosecution of Henry Kissel in the Roaring Twenties in Halifax
Author | Constance Backhouse |
Pages | 79-103 |
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THE PROSECUTION OF HENRY
KISSEL IN THE ROARING
TWENTIES IN HALIFAX
HK young man whose future brimmed with promise. A
nativeNewYorkerbornintheBronxtwentysixyearoldKisselwasinhis
nalyearattheprestigiousDalhousieMedicalSchoolinHalifax Only the
beststudentswereselectedtointernatthecitysVictoriaGeneralHospital
and Henry Kissel was one of the favoured few.Whenhewasntatthehos
pitalhesharedacomfortabletworoomatintheWestminsterApartments
at the corner of Morris and Church streets with another Dalhousie medical
student from New York, Irving Marks.
Senior medical students were immersed in classes and rounds at the
hospital, but Henry Kissel never let his studies interfere with his social life.
His fashionable haircut and eyewear betrayed his dashing sense of style.
Round hornrimmed glasses were much in vogue meant to produce the
“academic look that was derigueuroncampusthatyearTrendseerslike
KisselfoundinsucientscopeforrevelryatDalhousiesstrictlychaperoned
student dances, where smoking was prohibited and a midnight curfew pre
vailed. Henry Kissel preferred t he public dance hall at the Armouries, where
he could mix with a looser, more boisterous crowd. That was where, in the
latesummerofhemetandmingledwithwomenlikeEthelMachan
BytheRoaringTwentieswereinfullswingpartofanirresistible
surge of rebellion sweeping across North America. The First World War had
ended, ushering in a bold and vivacious new decade to chase away the hor
ricmemoriesoftheshaeredbaleeldsTheMaritimeregionwasslower
to experience the optimism, having been crippled by economic instability
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