Word: newport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean announced that Labor Leader John L. Lewis would be invited to her daughter Evalyn's Newport debut party, if & when she has one. Said the owner of the famed $300,000 Hope Diamond: "I am devoted to Mr. Lewis. Years ago father taught me to be sympathetic to labor. If the rich don't recognize labor they'll bring their house of cards down upon their ears...
...flourishes among the baby carriages and second-run movie houses of The Bronx (see above), as well as among the stone villas of Newport, R. I., the studios of Old Lyme, Conn. But in summer colonies, exhibitions are likely to be as much social as artistic events, with tea served on the terrace, concerts played in an adjoining room, and summer visitors exchanging greetings in the gallery. Last week summer shows, in full swing from Southhampton, L. I. to Ogunquit, Me., surprised critics with their variety, the number of first-rate artists exhibiting, the high level of the work exhibited...
...years after Francis Ormond French of Newport, R. I., lost his fortune ($500,000) in a stockmarket crash, he earned publicity and $17 by driving a Manhattan taxicab for three days. In 1934, his elder daughter Ellen married John Jacob Astor III. Two years later Mr. French wrote for Town & Country a so-called expose of top-flight society. Last year he let it be known that Daughter Ellen had offered him $25,000 if he would stop writing such things as a proposed book called On the Cuff. He refused the offer, has yet to publish the book. Last...
However, heterogeneous repertory theatres in popular resorts like Cape May, N. J., Provincetown, Dennis and Stockbridge, Mass., Newport, R. I., Stony Creek, Conn. and Skowhegan, Me. had shown theatre folk the practicality of pursuing their audiences into rural retreats. Faced with the alternative of roasting their heels on Broadway's hot pavements for three months every year, actors jumped at the chance of performing in anything from tents to churches, for anything from room & board to the revenues which could sometimes be derived from stage-struck vacationists eager to pay for a chance...
...local holes-which go by such picturesque names as Soda Water, Cherry, Heaven, Hell-and a sober student. From school he went to work as an office boy for American Tobacco Co. at $3 a week, began a standard up-through-the-ranks career-factory manager in Newport News, clerk in Manhattan, a two year stint in Bulgaria buying Turkish leaf tobacco. Thence he returned to Manhattan to work again for American Tobacco, later for Tobacco Products Corp., one of whose possessions was Melachrino. There he met Rube and Mac. In 1920 with his bride, a Boston girl named Rachel...