Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grandest deliberate advertising stunt, grander than the Prince of Wales' warship jaunts to the U. S. and his Dominions, ended at Friedrichshafen last week, when the Graf Zeppelin snuggled into her home schuppen (hangar). "Speaking frankly," said Dr. Hugo Eckener (in Manhattan last week), "the Graf Zeppelin's voyage around the world was to demonstrate the expediency of her mode of travel, to intensify public interest and to get financial support for the construction of the ideal Zeppelin which we know how to build." The trip served its purpose. It led last week to banker negotiations to provide Dr. Eckener...
Last week, Dr. Eckener and most of the Akron group sped to Manhattan. There they conferred with representatives of G.M.P.-Murphy & Co. and of Lehman Bros., and feted with National City Bank officials. Those houses are bankers for Continental plane lines? North, Central and South America. By making connections with them Dr. Eckener and Mr. Litchfield foresaw a possible world air linkage?Zeppelins by sea, planes by land...
Relatively easy, though not simple, were those stipulations for Dr. Eckener. With passengers, plus air mail, plus ex- press, Zeppelins can be made to pay handsomely he thinks. He tightened his tie, which slips loose on his thick neck, looked at his Manhattan timepiece (he carries three watches, showing Friedrichshafen. Greenwich and New York time), arched his mephistophelian brows, and hastened to the first Hamburg-American liner available for Hamburg. A Hamburg-American it had to be, for that company aided Graf Zeppelin in her world flight. The first boat was the slow New York, which takes ten days...
Like a great mausoleum the Metropolitan Museum of Art over an acre of Central Park in Manhattan, facing houses of the rich on Fifth Avenue. Inside are many tombs-tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs, of exalted bric-a-brac, of Art. In the art tombs are laid away examples of the work of the great painters and sculp- tors of other times. There are Rubenses, Rembrandts,* Rodins, Titians, Tintorettos, Tiepolos, scores of time-proven mediocrities, one Botticelli. Progressive artists throughout the East have long given up hope for modernity in the Metropolitan. Few of them ever visit its vaults. Scathingly they...
...Manhattan, one Omar Lutfey, restaurateur, emerged from a speakeasy, saw Patrolman William Dunn, flung himself to the ground, gnawed the policeman's leg, roared, "I'm a lion...