Word: heydays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heyday, Tokyo's Imperial Hotel was the city's most famous landmark after the imperial Palace. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright between 1916 and 1921 in a style that combined the most extravagant features of Mayan and Oriental architecture, the yellow-brick stone-trimmed structure played host to visiting celebrities from Babe Ruth, Will Rogers and Albert Einstein to honeymooning Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio. But even to its fans, the Imperial has always had its idiosyncrasies. Every one of its 230 guest rooms is different, an efficiency expert's nightmare, and Wright was apparently so struck...
Less Than the Navajos. Today, with few exceptions, Micronesia looks-and is-a poorer place than in the heyday of the Japanese, reports TIME Correspondent Frank McCulloch after a five week tour of the islands. Occupying U.S. forces leveled much of what the Japanese built that was still intact after the war. Even what survived was seldom maintained, such as the once excellent water system on the island of Dublon, in Truk lagoon, now rusting in disuse, or the jungle-swallowed road on Babelthuap that once enabled outlying copra farmers and fishermen to bring their goods to market...
...that because of his saturnine poker face, and it would appear that his more vivacious daughter has inherited something of that same crocodilian countenance, if one might judge from some of her expressions while addressing a golf ball. There was never a more machinelike player than Lacoste in his heyday. He won so consistently because his ground-strokes could not be faulted; and he was a past master of that now neglected piece of tennis finesse, the lob. His teammates, Cochet, with his half-volley, and Borotra, with his catlike ballet at the net, were the crowd-pleasers, not Lacoste...
...tend to become more Irish than the Irish. The taxi driver who took Pritchett to his first hotel was full of "bedads" and "begobs," but turned out to be a cockney. Ironically, the great buildings of this attractive city were erected by the Anglo-Irish in their 18th century heyday; fortunately, they escaped disfiguration during the 19th century industrial revolution that blighted England's cities but bypassed Ireland, in part because of its disastrous famines, in part because of its own preoccupation with its more romantic national affairs. The Bank of Ireland (once the Irish Parliament), the Four Courts...
During his heyday, art experts generally dismissed Erté's chaste variety of Beardsleyish Orientalism as an evanescent fad, like mah-jongg or the Charleston. Almost alone, French Critic Maurice Feuillet in 1929 hailed him as "a harbinger of the art of tomorrow, a prince of fantasy, a magician of conception." Feuillet may have been close to the truth. Last month, when Manhattan's Grosvenor Gallery put on display 179 early gouache and metallic-paint designs by Erté, the entire collection was snapped up by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The gallery has since been selling Erte...