Word: metropolitanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Blue Hill Observatory, located on the summit of Great Blue Hill in the Metropolitan Park Reservation, was founded by the late Professor A. Lawrence Rotch in 1884. Regular observations, begun on February 1, 1885, have been continued without interruption for over 40 years and constitute a unique series in the history of American climatology. The equipment consists of standard European and American makes of barometers, thermometers, hygrometers, and wind instruments, to which are added sunshine recorders, instruments for recording night cloudiness, and improved types of nephoscopes for day observations. The results of the observations made with these instruments, together with...
...Metropolitan--Bebe Daniels in "The 50-50 Girl", which is supposed to be pretty funny...
...passing through its slack season, El Colon can? engage many of the most notable singers from either continent. This is attended to by Administrator Pablo F. Barbat; for the coming season he has secured the services of Gigli, Lauri-Volpi, Didur, Pinza, and Mme. Serafin-Rakowska of the Metropolitan; and of Maria Olczewska, Benvenuto Franci, Otto Wolf from various European companies. He plans to present Ildebrando Pizetti's new opera Fra Gherardo...
...this festival Wilfred Pelletier, of the Metropolitan Opera Company, had arranged the production of the first known comic opera, Le Jen de Robin et Marion, written by Adam de la Halle 700 years ago, in the century of the troubadours...
Blonde and beautiful Maria Jeritza, Austrian soprano, golden star of the Metropolitan in the winter and the Vienna State Opera Company in the summer, last week grew angry. She had recently gone to Paris with the Vienna company and had sung there in several performances. Medals and decorations were awarded to several members of the troupe, among them the great Jeritza. Jeritza's fury, which newsgatherers for no valid reason regarded as unjustified, resulted from the fact that she had been given, not the medal of the Legion of Honor, but the insignificant one of "Officer of Public Instruction...