Word: oscar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explanation was offered. None seemed likely to be offered. But shrewd observers remembered that in the next Congress Oscar De Priest will sit as Representative from the First District, Chicago. Naturally he will bring Mrs. Jessie Williams De Priest with him to Washington. The shrewd observers recalled that Mr. & Mrs. De Priest are Negroes-he being the only black man to sit in either house of Congress since Negro Representative Henry White of Tarboro...
...best artistic results it often seems unfortunate that the Metropolitan Opera Company has no competition. Not since Oscar Hammerstein presented French opera at his own Manhattan Opera House has the Broadway company been forced into jacking its standards. Then, in 1910. the Metropolitan directors purchased peace. Hammerstein received approximately a million dollars and in return he promised to present no opera in Manhattan for ten years. The nucleus of his troupe went to Chicago, developed into the Chicago Civic Opera of today, an organization devoted to Italian and French opera. The Metropolitan, unmolested, has stayed Italian and German. The paths...
...regrets that troubled the soul of Oscar, however, never, entered into the discussions of a group of men who gathered in a downtown bank in New York and spent the day deliberating. They were realtors, and they talked of leases and rents, and how many stories an office building must rise in order to yield income proportionate to the value of a property in terms of Fifth Avenue frontage. In the end, they nodded in agreement on a real estate dicker which will wipe out the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, a famed Manhattan landmark, a tradition of princesses and kings, Peacock...
...Oscar Tschirky, it is said, passed by while excavations were in progress. "What's going to be built here?" he asked; and learning that it was to be a new hotel, he asked...
...Oscar S. Straus, 70, widow of the late Secretary of Commerce & Labor under Roosevelt, friend of the late Hunter Carl E. Akeley, will sail on Jan. 19 for Africa, push up the river Nile, into the Livingstone Mountains, in quest of birds, beasts and vegetation for the American Museum of Natural History. No gun-toter, she will use the camera...