Word: madison
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ballyhoo the first birthday of his Oscar-smothered epic movie Around the World in 80 Days, Showman Mike Todd held "a little private party" in Manhattan's ballooned and festooned Madison Square Garden. On the promise of a mighty spectacle plus food, champagne and free gifts (from Japanese dolls to a Cessna airplane), Pitchman Todd conned 18,000 suckers in evening wear into the Garden, conned CBS-TV into paying some $300,000 to carry the shambles to the nation, conned most of the gifts and goodies without cost from publicity-seeking businessmen. When the colossal display of vulgarity...
Boston is the most incongruous place in America to stage a rodeo. There is almost complete antithesis between the society capable of producing such a masculine affair as a rodeo and that of the Harvard-dominated Athens of America. Madison Square Garden is bad enough, but at least New York is pushy, brash, and gaudy...
Guard Interference. In Des Moines, the lucky winner of the Register's "You Pick 'Em" football-score contest, for which he received two free 50-yard-line tickets to the Iowa-Wisconsin football game, was Fort Madison (Iowa) Penitentiary Prisoner...
...that reaches their curbs and benches now that the Third Avenue elevated has been torn down. Along San Francisco's Mission Street, the "lumbermen"-beggars on crutches-whined for nickels and dimes, counted up daily takes that often reached $45. Along Chicago's West Madison Street "20% California muscatel" sold briskly at 40? a pint to "winos," while around Baltimore's Market Place the "smokehounds" with red-stained hands laboriously strained alcohol through handkerchiefs from the wax in cans of Sterno (29? a can, cut-rate) and gulped the pinkish alcohol after lining their stomachs with milk...
High-Kneed Unison. The Black Watch opened in Washington (where it stirred its audiences to exuberant Dixie rebel yells), moved into jampacked Madison Square Garden, last week skirled through Canada and New York State before heading for points west. Even for a non-Scots observer, the Watch has swank. First off come the trumpeters and the regimental band playing Great Little Army and wearing the somber kilts that gave the Watch its name when it mustered for its first parade on the banks of the River...