Word: metropolitanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...away his share. But not Bill Clark, who kept his head, went into politics, went to the U. S. Senate, built an extravagant palace full of works of art on Fifth Avenue, way off in New York. Three years ago, Senator Clark died, willing his art treasures to the Metropolitan Museum, Manhattan, on condition that it would keep them as an integral exhibit. The Metropolitan refused the treasures on these terms, but not the Corcoran Art Gallery of Washington, substitute legatee. ... Last week, with Senator Clark's widow on his arm, President Coolidge walked through the Corcoran...
...While none is quite of the Metropolitan Opera calibre, all have excellent voices and there is among them a degree of teamwork which is often lacking in the company of stars. The company certainly justifies its claim of being singing actors. They sing to each other and not at the audience...
...wore the first collapsible top hat. He was trying out a new chauffeur. It was hard to change after being accustomed, for seven years, to the way Gilbert Fabbri shifted gears and turned corners. But Chauffeur Fabbri had fallen dead within the entrance of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, just before going to fetch Tenor Gigli's two children from school. And Tenor Gigli had been unable to continue rehearsal that afternoon...
...discovers in his pocket the $50 with a scrawl attached: "Just a little gift from a baby girl to a honey boy." But Jake had lost her address. So he finds new women, old drinks; becomes a longshoreman, a third cook on a Pullman, a quiet enjoyer of metropolitan fleshpots. In the end-Negroes, too, like it happy-Jake wanders into the arms of that same warm brown girl...
...consist in gathering and writing up each day the news of the University. It is necessarily difficult, but it affords a wide and intimate knowledge of the University, its activities, and the men engaged in them, as well as the occasional pleasures met in interviewing various personages of the metropolitan headlines...