Word: bigwig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Little, intense Mrs. Rosenberg, friend and confidante of Franklin Roosevelt, Fiorello LaGuardia and many another bigwig, freely admitted that her outside salary came from R. H. Macy-Bamberger (department stores), who paid her $20,000, and I. Miller (shoes), who paid her $2,500, for giving them advice on labor relations. The other $6,000 came from Nelson Rockefeller, for the same kind of advice and help on "speeches for graduation and commencement exercises...
...about 2 a.m. in the Palm Room at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. For four hours various jazz musicians, drifting in from the hotspots, had been showing a roomful of bigwig musicians and assorted guests that jazz is serious. At the moment a hot guitarist, academically introduced as a "demonstrator of social and protest blues," was beginning to take effect on listeners like Conductor Wilfred Pelletier of the Metropolitan Opera. Soon Benny Goodman arrived, said "Hi" to the assembled thinkers and blew into his clarinet. In the early dawn he was still going strong. So were Mouth-Organist Larry Adler...
...article. The resulting famous altercation between "Oomph Girl" Ann Sheridan and the 'Poon became known all over the country. It was the only incident that was not staged and pre-arranged. This lone incident in which Harvard was not made to look silly reached a climax when some Hollywood bigwig offered to let Ann's next picture hold its world premiere at the U.T. with 'Poon president W. Russell Bowie '41 as guest of honor and with a great fanfare of publicity. Bowie, realizing that some studio was hoping to clean up on the strength of the 330 year...
Officials at U.M.W.'s magnificent headquarters in Washington wrapped themselves in deep, angry silence. Unofficially it was explained that the assessment boost was to build up a war chest against the day when defense work ends and the recession sets in. But neither Mr. Lewis nor any U.M.W. bigwig would "dignify this little unprintable strike" with official comment...
Last week he tapped 260-lb. John A. Ritchie, bus-bigwig; this week will draft other transportation big shots...