Word: made
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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David Merriwether Milton, Manhattan lawyer, made known that, like his father-in-law, John Davison Rockefeller Jr., he would go in for realty operating, would perch a luxurious $3,000,000 cooperative apartment house on a bluff overhanging the East River, at the foot of Beekman Place. Atop the building. Owner & Mrs. Milton will listen to tooting tugs. see the twinkling lights of Long Island City and Astoria, from a sumptuous penthouse...
...Graphic last August. Said he then: "The Graphic unquestionably got off to a bad start. Its tone has been a low voice. Its policy was a 'chemise' policy. So far as Mr. Macfadden is concerned he agrees with me that the Graphic must and will be made into a high class newspaper. . . . The tone . . . will unquestionably have to be raised. I have found the people of New York City have a lot more intelligence than they are given credit for. . . . What I want to do is to cross Park Avenue with Third Avenue. I don't want...
Critic Huneker's principal interests may not have been in the U. S., but his breezily enthusiastic criticism was undeniably native. Often blundering, always bold, he was a warm-hearted chronicler of adventure in the arts. Healthy exaggeration came naturally to him, made his sweeping statements sweep cleaner: "[Shaw] is as emotional as his own typewriter, and this defect, which he parades as did the fox in the fable, has stood in the way of his writing a great play. He despises love, and therefore cannot appeal deeply to mankind." Wagner's Parsijal is dismissed as "that bizarre compound...
...They up and told police. Complaints were made in flocks. Police found that the 'lily bulbs' were nothing more than rocks...
...Brieux and his "brood of heresies," calls Bernard Shaw the "gadfly of the absurdities of our time," met in Senator La Follette "a lonely figure climbing the mountain of privileges," condemns Henry Ford's philosophy as alluringly Utopian, too mechanistic, finds John Davison Rockefeller Jr. a man who "has made of his millions a weapon to shake ignorance out of its citadel...