Word: bartholomews
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...city is planning a week of inaugural festivities: concerts by the Boston Pops, fashion shows and museum exhibits. These activities will be a bit superfluous, for even on a normal day, the marketplace has the air of a modern Bartholomew Fair. Cabaret tunes from the piano bar commingle with bluegrass songs played by street musicians. The streets between the buildings, once choked with produce trucks, have been closed to traffic. Now pushcart vendors hawk their wares-scrimshaw knives and jewelry, puppets and pottery-while in the North and South Markets, scores of small shops offer highly specialized merchandise. Various stalls...
...London in 1882, the son of a Polish cabinetmaker and a mother of Irish descent. They managed to scrape up enough money to send him to Oxford and to the Royal College of Music. He got a job as an organist in a London church, then moved to St. Bartholomew's in New York. In 1909 he became the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony. He was young (27) and virtually untried, but magisterially handsome and already with the mark of genius upon him. Under the gaze of his stern blue eyes, matrons twittered, instrumentalists quailed and other cities began...
...women were not in a position to make the kind of political history Fried is concerned with. (Each is written in a genre particular to the times and events it describes.) Samuels Book of Confessions is complemented by the journals of Basil Litchflied Prescott, transcendentalist; on the other hand, Bartholomew Flagg Prescott's contribution comprises a series of dispatches, ostensibly briefing Lincoln on the calibre of his various generals, while Stewart Rantoul os represented by muckraking articles and his correspondence with Teddy Roosevelt...
...disappointed by the conservative tendencies of his hand-picked successor, William Howard Taft. In the manner of Ronald Reagan, Roosevelt challenged a sitting President. He narrowly lost to Taft at the raucous G.O.P. Convention, which was described by Mr. Dooley as "a combination iv th' Chicago fire, St. Bartholomew's massacre, the battle iv th' Boyne, the life iv Jesse James and th' night iv th' big wind." Then T.R. formed a third party (Bull Moose) and ran in the election. By splitting the Republican vote, he enabled Democrat Woodrow Wilson to win. In 1920 a combination of war-weariness...
What is it worth to have lunch with New York's Jacob Javits in the Senate Dining Room? $325. To spend an evening with Summer Bartholomew, Miss U.S.A.? $1,000. To be able to jog around in a beat-up pair of sneakers once owned by Basketball Star Julius Erving? $201. These and other market values were set at what one TV critic described as "an upper-middle-class version of Let's Make a Deal," a nine-day fund-raising auction held onscreen by New York's public television station WNET. While some 500 celebrities acted...