Word: fronte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rules. Beau Nash changed all that. He made himself master of ceremonies, raised money for buildings, started the Pump Room Orchestra, organized balls and assemblies in a stately new hall, laid down and enforced a code of manners (sword-wearing and smoking in front of ladies were banned), ordered all the old ladies to sit in the back rows and all the shyest maidens to dance. The plump, dandiacal "King of Bath," whose crown was an enormous cream-colored beaver hat, ruled society like an autocrat.* Graceful new Georgian buildings transformed Bath into the handsomest of English towns...
Inside the bank, two of the gentlemen (one had a submachine gun) took up posts blocking the front door. Another pair strode across the tiled floor to block a back exit. Four others herded twelve bank employees and four customers into a patio in the rear, while the gang leader and an aide went to the office of the bank's manager, Esteban Juncadella. He found him chatting with, of all people, a sub-inspector of the Bureau of Theft of the secret police...
Last week Ambassador Bruce was back in Washington talking things over. Bargain buying by the U.S. Army of small lots of Argentine beef, lamb and turkey for use in Germany suggested a far from united economic front against Argentina. What went on? EGA, which holds the strings of the biggest purse, gave Ambassador Bruce the score. The EGA would not spend a dime of the U.S. taxpayer's money in Argentina until the Peron government gave some hard & fast promises to: 1) sell to the U.S. at world prices; 2 ) sell to Marshall Plan countries at world prices...
Most of his 85 employees turned out at Goshen, N.Y. to pull for the boss: he had promised them their day's pay if he won. There wasn't much doubt about the first heat. Demon Hanover stepped along in front easy as could be, with the boss, in his goggles and cap, driving like a professional. Demon Hanover won the heat without straining. His time: 2:03 1/5. If he could repeat in the second heat, there would be no necessity for a third. In the second, Demon Hanover trotted even better (2:02), won the Hambletonian...
Another Lunch. Melchior was not the only one prepared to rescue grand opera. In Manhattan, bustling little Showman Billy Rose, who jazzed-up Bizet in Carmen Jones, got front-page publicity with a proposal that wasn't as bumptious as it at first sounded. Five years ago, Billy had lunched with some Met board members, and made what Board Chairman George A. Sloan now gingerly refers to as "a number of helpful observations which were conveyed to our . . . management." Now Billy was again ready to be the Met's little helper...