Word: metropolitane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patrice Munsel, 20-year-old Metropolitan Opera soprano, was the principal tea leaf in a teapot tempest of publicity just before she made her West Coast debut at Hollywood Bowl. The United Press reported the Met aswoon with shame because pictures had been published of her in a bra-suit. Manager Edward Johnson denied it, peered at the picture, purred, "She looks nice." Clucked Singer Munsel: "I thought it made me look a little bulky in spots...
...about newspapering, he now seemed to be seeing the war from a pretty special angle. He watched battle reports come in, wrote that it was "strongly suggestive of covering returns at police headquarters on election night or collecting the details of a suburban disaster from the desk of a metropolitan newspaper...
...main, they had come from metropolitan Boston-from selling jobs, grocery stores, housewifery. Only 1% came from outside Massachusetts...
...Melisande, Hansel in Hansel und Gretel, set off her charms to best advantage. Photographs of Maggie Teyte in knickers and sleek satin gowns with gold slippers were treasured items in the dens of U.S. dudes. Women crowded counters for "Maggie Teyte Perfume." But when she failed to snare a Metropolitan contract, Maggie Teyte shrewdly decided that her clear-toned, brilliantly controlled voice was better suited to chamber singing than to opera...
...site, already bought and paid for, is Manhattan's upper Fifth Avenue, hard by the conventional Metropolitan Museum. The Guggenheim collection has been housed for six years in a temporary, rented building...