Word: brooklyn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...York, it means that the seat of the late William B. Barry in Republican Queens will go to the G.O.P. It means that Donald O'Toole, leftist, will be beaten in usually solidly Democratic Brooklyn; that Charles A. Buckley will go down to defeat in Democratic Bronx...
...envoys, who arrived early and ensconced themselves at the Waldorf-Astoria, excited the envy of other Latin American delegations unable to find lodgings on Park Avenue. The British were at Essex House, handy for early-morning constitutionals in Central Park. The Liberian delegation found the color line nonexistent at Brooklyn's elegant St. George. The astonishingly anonymous-looking U.S. delegation (see cut) had a whole floor at the Pennsylvania. ¶ Senator Connally, with more than 150 other westbound diplomats, was on the Queen Elizabeth, making its first peacetime voyage (see BUSINESS). The most rubbered at and the least gregarious...
...same auditorium 19 years ago Dr. Koussevitzky had led the first performance of Brooklyn-born Aaron Copland's raucous Jazz Concerto. On that evening Bostonians had hissed; some had laughed out loud; some had accused Dr. Koussevitzky of insulting them.* In those days, Aaron Copland was the kind of cacophonous enfant terrible in the U.S. that Igor Stravinsky had once been in Paris. If audiences were no longer disturbed by these terrible children, it was for different reasons. Igor Stravinsky had waited for the public ear to become attuned to his jazzy dissonances. Aaron Copland had modified his harmonies...
...College of the City of New York" is the common moniker of all four of New York's city-owned colleges: City College, Hunter (for women), Brooklyn College, Queens College. † Other top overall enrollments this fall: University of California, 47,864; New York University, 39,500; Minnesota, 33,115; Columbia, 28,108; Ohio State, 24,600; Illinois...
Married. Peggy Wood, 52, versatile, Brooklyn-born actress (Old Acquaintance, Blithe Spirit); and William Henry Walling, 51, Manhattan socialite-businessman; she for the second time, he for the third; in Stamford, Conn...