Word: sylvesterisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Scientific Eating. Early crusader for fruits and vegetables was Sylvester Graham, advocate of wholemeal Graham bread. In Manhattan a Graham boardinghouse was founded, and middle-class intellectuals eagerly took up vegetable diets along with bloomers and female suffrage. (At this time some zealots founded a "Society for the Suppression of...
When Manhattan's Palace Theater (most famed two-a-day house in the U.S.) started to show pictures in 1932, U. S. vaudeville was through. Last week, vaudeville got its first full-length biography, by Feature Writer Douglas Gilbert of the New York World-Telegram. His book, American Vaudeville...
To U. S. turfmen, the arrival of Bahram was big news. But bigger still was the news that his new owners were not the Wideners, Woodwards and Whitneys who usually import great European stallions, but a syndicate of four young men, all under 35: Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Sylvester Labrot Jr...
Part of the Aga Khan's racing stable has already been dispersed. (In December he sold four horses for fancy prices to Cinemagnate Louis B. Mayer and the beasts were shipped to the U. S. on a Cunarder with 125 German refugees.) Last week a U. S. syndicate (including...
Jesse Newlon, 58, is a great, rumbling tub of a man, a longtime spokesman for the left wing of U. S. teachers. Onetime president of the National Education Association, he helped found the now extinct leftish magazine Social Frontier, was a crony of famed Leftist Professor George Sylvester Counts. An...