Word: metropolitanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harriman. She declared $1,500 of Paris finery. The inspectors were not satisfied, seized $100,000 worth of jewelry and eleven pieces of baggage. When the France was two days at sea, Mrs. Rumsey had given a jeweled purse to her friend and fellow passenger, Lucrezia Bori, Metropolitan Opera soprano. Miss Bori is a Spanish citizen. Her personal belongings were not dutiable. Nevertheless, the inspectors seized her new purse and obliged Mrs. Rumsey to pay duty on that, too. The Rumsey jewelry was proved to have been purchased in this country, and was returned, though Mrs. Rumsey...
...school of business. Mr. Baker handed it a grand $5,000,000. Harvard wanted more money for the business school; he gave it another $1,000,000. The late great Henry Pomeroy Davison needed money for Red Cross work during the War; Mr. Baker gave $2,000,000. The Metropolitan Museum of Art wanted Regault's painting "Salome"; Mr. Baker presented it. It wanted money; he gave $1,000,000. Cornell University asked for dormitories and chemical laboratories, and got $2,000,000 from Mr. Baker. And thus it has gone: $750,000 to New York Hospital...
Motion picture men and reporters from Metropolitan papers from all over the country have pervaded the training camp during the last few days in anticipation of the coming classic, and the wires have been kept busy by enterprising operators filling the dusky columns of the daily sport sheets...
...cancelling their $1.50 subscriptions. But also came notes, many of them from outside of Gaffney, ordering new $1.50 subscriptions. For this week the Cherokee Times was the first of U. S. newspapers to begin publishing the year's Pulitzer novel in serial form-a feature for which big metropolitan publishers always bid handsomely...
...Metropolitan Building (New York...