Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Space Limitations. In Manhattan, the New York Times called attention to a television program "telling of launching of first spaceship carrying passengers to the moon," said it was the beginning of "a dramatic series dealing with minor frustrations imposed by modern daily living...
Yale is the choice to capture the team title, with Army, Manhattan, and sentimental favorite Villanova in challenging positions. The Yale two-mile relay team of Jim Stack, Ed Slowik, Bill Legat, and Tommy Carroll won its race in last week's AAU championships with the amazing time...
...money. The result was fatal. Faced for once in his life with a big gambling debt, he had doubts about his solvency and refused to pay up. Eight weeks later, on Nov. 4, 1928, he was shot in the belly in Room 349 of the Park Central Hotel on Manhattan's Seventh Avenue and died two days later, after crying: "I've got to go home.'' His suspected murderer beat...
...house, bar the doors and pray; but Jim Fisk was fat and jolly as a carnival pig. Part of his share of the shareholders' money was devoted to his mistress, Actress Josie Mansfield, while other spoils went to buying and renovating Pike's Opera House on Manhattan's Eighth Avenue for the company's head offices; there business mixed with pleasure in the form of such Fiskal attractions as "THE DEMON CAN-CAN . . . 100 BEAUTIFUL YOUNG LADIES . . . Contains Nothing Objectionable." Finally Fisk was probably the only colonel (of New York's 9th National Guard Regiment...
Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. A charming if disorderly waif clings to the edge of her martini glass to keep from drowning in Manhattan...