Word: metropolitanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Down they bore on hotels, road houses, garages, a Manhattan office building, a New Jersey mansion. Captured were 32 prisoners, hundreds of cases of good liquor. In mid-Manhattan a detachment entered a businesslike office where directors of a colossal liquor syndicate, said to have a monopoly of the metropolitan supply, were known to meet, plan operations, declare fabulous dividends. Records the raiders found, but no directors. "BIGGEST DRY RAID" blared press headlines the next morning. A picked detachment of raiders invaded the field headquarters of the syndicate, an isolated 20-room mansion high on a New Jersey headland, onetime...
...Disraeli", at the Metropolitan this week, has the virtues of an intelligent, dramatic theme and dialogue, and the acting of George Arliss. Few pictures offer either of these. As a result "Disraeli" merits exceptional praise. It is a close photographic version of the stage play in which Mr. Arliss has long given the title role; so the scenes end abruptly, and concentrate entirely on straight dialogue, rather than presenting any attempt at original photography. What is lost in color is, however, well balanced by the gain in directness and clearness; and, more important, adherence to the stage version keeps...
...Crimson will publish a 12 page football feature for the Harvard-Dartmouth game tomorrow, containing complete accounts of the records of both teams and forecasts by the leading metropolitan sports writers...
...Metropolitan--Clara Bow in "The Saturday Night Kid". Also Ruth Etting in person...
...first, "St. Francis Receiving the Stymata" is a Giotto, or a near-Giotto, and its quality has been favorably compared with the one in Paris. It is understood to be the discovery of Count Guoli, the foreign agent of the Metropolitan Museum...