Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chosen head of a U. S. committee to aid in sending comfort kits to French soldiers, Mrs. Harrison Williams, Manhattan socialite, "best-dressed woman in the world," began taking lessons in knitting from the committee's treasurer...
...opera fans the first public appearance of a new soprano or tenor is as exciting as the trial spin of a new Class-J sloop is to yachtsmen. Last week Manhattan's debutasters trooped to the Metropolitan Opera House to size up the beam, rig and probable speed of two of the Metropolitan's brand-new singers. Chicago operagoers had already bravoed both of them long ago. But that was not enough for Manhattan. For every standee at the Metropolitan regards himself as a member of opera's supreme court, delights to reverse or qualify the opinions...
...huge audience that stormed the Academy of Music to hear him found that Rachmaninoff was still pretty good at both, listened reverently while he poked thunderbolts out of the kettledrums and beckoned concords of sweet snarls from the banked fiddles. Two days later he repeated the performance in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall...
When it was all over, weary-looking Rachmaninoff was glad to get back to his Manhattan apartment, where he could finger his piano again undisturbed, smoke his constant de-nicotinized cigarets in peace...
Last fortnight U. S. college fraternities held their annual interfraternity conference in Manhattan. The delegates had a few headaches. Fraternities found it harder these days to fill their expensive houses, make ends meet. The burgeoning of new house plans in private Eastern colleges, the current revival of dormitory building in State universities made their own houses less dazzling. At Wisconsin, dormitories had gone so far as to take over a time-honored fraternity function: they gave their boys instruction in table manners...