Word: newports
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...like an inch and a half of rain in a dry year. Nice, appreciated, but not enough." But Ford likes this kind of campaigning-so much so that he plans to be out of Washington almost every weekend all fall. There will be fund raisers from Newport, R.I., to Seattle, Wash., a Baptist convention in St. Louis and, of course, the University of Michigan's football game against Michigan State...
With a growing private income, Edith concentrated all of her energies redoing her homes on Park Avenue and in Newport. She eventually built The Mount, a mansion constructed to her own perfectionist taste in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts. There was nevertheless plenty of time to write. Edith, who had begun an unfinished novel as a child, sent poems and then short stories to the literary magazines. Her first novel, The Valley of Decision, was published in 1902, just after her 40th birthday...
...American rich and the clash between new and old money. On her native ground she has never been matched, and no other American has ever portrayed so well the sometimes savage drama of life behind the damask draperies of Fifth Avenue and the wrought-iron gates of Newport. By the time of The House of Mirth in 1905, she was recognized as a major novelist and, as an aging Henry James grew silent, she took his place as the preeminent American writer, a position she held for nearly 25 years, until the eve of the Depression...
...Haldemans still maintain a $185,000 house in the exclusive Hancock Park area of Los Angeles, and have been spending the summer on an even more exclusive island in Newport Beach, Calif., where his wife's family has a New England-style residence. Although he has dropped out of the Big Canyon Country Club, he and his wife occasionally attend private parties. Friends say that Haldeman's ordeal has tapped new strengths and vitality and he is bearing up with Christian Scientist calm. He takes tennis lessons and plucks away at the guitar...
Remember, there is still time to get to New York for the much bally-hooed Newport Jazz Festival. Recommended fare: McCoy Tyner with Rahsaahn Rollin Kirk tomorrow night at 7:30 in Avery Fisher Hall...