Word: uptown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sang a handful of French torch songs, she tore at her blue-black hair, embraced an imaginary lover, went through the motions of strangling herself in one ballad, dropped to the floor in another (after supposedly swallowing poison). The crowd in Manhattan's Cafe Society Uptown loved every minute of it. Her one song in English, Hands across the Table, still carried a Paris label; despite three engagements in the U.S. before the war, she had been careful not to learn English too well...
...stock went from $1 to $14. He married a tall, blond sculptress and bought the palatial six-story mansion at 814 Fifth Ave. of famed financier Jules Bache. As in his financial deals, the cash outlay was small, only one-fifth the $105,000 price. Downtown, Rubinstein worked hard. Uptown, in cafe society, he played hard. He became known as the man who always picked up the check, and thereby made new friends who might prove useful...
...great grandfather, Henry Sand Brooks, founded the store in a frame building at Catherine and Cherry Streets in downtown Manhattan when James Monroe was president and the U.S. flag still had only 20 stars. By the time of the Civil War, the store (which had already moved part way uptown toward its present address at Madison Avenue and 44th Street) was "the largest establishment of its kind in the world." Naturally, Union Generals Ulysses S. Grant, Philip H. Sheridan, William Tecumseh Sherman and Joseph Hooker campaigned in Brooks Brothers' uniforms. Abraham Lincoln was wearing a Brooks Brothers coat when...
...retiring Walter Hoving prepared to undertake what he mysteriously described as "an amalgamation of department stores and other retail properties" outside New York, Lord & Taylor announced that plans would go forward for expansion inside the city limits. It will open ten branches in outlying metropolitan districts, a new uptown Fifth Avenue store, close to Rockefeller Center and Best & Co.'s new store. In carrying out this expansion, Dorothy Shaver will have the help of able Van Buren Sims, first vice president. What Dorothy Shaver's uptown store will look like, no outsider knows. But New Yorkers will expect...
...Columbia's square-set President Nicholas Murray Butler sat next a judge of the State Supreme Court in the uptown elevated. "Judge Gildersleeve," said he, "I have good news for you. I've just decided to make your daughter dean of Barnard." The judge considered his verdict carefully. "I am not surprised," he said at last. "Virginia will make you a good dean...