Search Details

Word: uptown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...dark, curly-cropped singer, that was the ultimate compliment. Yet the veteran of the small-time hotel and clubroom circuit has been around too long to toy with complacency. Edging into her late 30s, she wants desperately to move her career uptown to the Broadway stage. "I'd like dramatic singing parts," says she. "I'd like to do a show that has just one great song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Lady in the Light | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

...enterprising Law School students have taken over the Mahogany Hall bar in uptown Boston. John C. Hancock 2L, who, according to the bar's publicist, "looks like a Supreme Court Justice," and Richard F. Plotka 3L, a longtime member of the Mahogany Hall Stompers, are the new entrepreneurs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Students Save Mahogany Hall Bar | 1/8/1959 | See Source »

When the Ritz Carlton moved uptown to Madison Avene and 61st Street, they changed the name of the hotel to just plain Carlton. But the bar remained the Ritz Carlton Bar. It's not really a bar. It's a sprawling, antiseptic, and canaped cocktail lounge, staffed by maitres de and cluttered with bowls of peanuts...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Cocktails With Truman Capote | 12/9/1958 | See Source »

...Port Washington, L.I. each workday morning for Manhattan's Penn Station, where he changes to the subway for his Columbus Circle office. Like many another straphanger, Donner has a habit of leaning out impatiently over the subway platform to see whether his train is coming. Last week the uptown train roared in for Fred Donner, 55. In a major shift of General Motors personnel, Financial Vice President Donner was tapped to succeed retiring President Harlow Curtice as boss of the world's largest industrial corporation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: New Bosses at G.M. | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the remainder of the varsity ate its usual pre-meet steak on the train, arrived at Grand Central Station, and traveled uptown to Van Cortlandt by subway. They dressed for the meet and jogged over the course. But as the hour of the start approached, there was still no sign of Segal...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: From Oblivion to Glory and Back Again | 10/24/1957 | See Source »

Previous | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | Next