Word: levant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First company to be hauled up on the Senate's dissecting table was Export Steamship, a flashy young hustler born in 1919. Most travelers know that American Export Lines operates a fair-to-middling passenger service out of New York through the Mediterranean to the Levant (Palestine, Syria, Egypt), that its best boats all have names beginning with ''Ex" (Excalibur, Exochorda, Exeter, Excambion), the first of which Mrs. Herbert Hoover christened. Senator Black's investigation disclosed the following about Export Steamship's past and present...
...first concert ever dedicated entirely to the works of George Gershwin. Alternating on the podium were Conductor Coates and William Merrigan Daly, radio and Broadway conductor, onetime managing editor of Everybody's Magazine (Walter Lippmann was his assistant in 1914). At the piano were Composer Gershwin and able Oscar Levant...
...York Feb. 18, 1848, the year before the Gold Rush. Always interested in art, he studied painting under the elder George Inness, a talented exponent of what was known as the Hudson River School. Later he went abroad, studied in Paris, traveled and sketched extensively in Europe, Africa, the Levant. Here commenced his interest in decorative arts, particularly glassware, which led to his development of that heavy iridescent substance known as Tiffany Favrile Glass. His first U. S. exhibit, "A Dock Scene, Yonkers," was in the National Academy of 1869. He became (and remains) Vice President and Art Director...
...order that this precious survivor of that disaster might be preserved more carefully and treated more reverently, eight Harvard graduates united to secure a silk-lined, levant morocco-covered, asbestos box in which it is kept in the Library Treasure Room. The donors were G.H. Norcross '75, E.H. Baker '81, J.P. Parmenter '81, Albert Matthews '82, Percival Merritt '82, J.A. Noyes '83, G.L. Kittredge '84, and S.W. Phillips...