Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Royal Household, carries a long white wand on formal occasions, wears a symbolic golden key, presents to the King-Emperor a daily account of the doings of Parliament while it is in session. Present Vice-Chamberlain of Britain is burly Jack Hayes, Laborite, one-time heavyweight boxer, onetime metropolitan policeman. More than most Laborite factotums of the Court he is irked by his gaudy trappings. Occasionally he rebels. Last month an oil tanker hove back to England's shore from a Mediterranean cruise and out upon the dock stepped Vice-Chamberlain & Mrs. Hayes with their daughter...
Last year when Artur Bodanzky resigned as German opera conductor of Manhattan's Metropolitan, his successor was immediately announced to be one Joseph Rosenstock of Wiesbaden. Few had ever heard of such a person, all marveled that a comparative unknown was to fill the most important post in the world's most important operatic organization...
...harriers will meet the Yale Freshman 3.10 o'clock ten minutes before the University race. The distance for the first year men is about three and three quarters miles, beginning by the Metropolitan Race Track, and ending at the Lars Anderson Bridge...
...time when the rugs have been laid on the floor and the furniture has begun to assume a natural air--then does the iron hand of the law drive the exiles out into the world to seek a new lodging. While the affair makes admirable copy for metropolitan newspapers and will amuse countless burghers in numerous cities, the students involved must have sentiments much akin to those of the banished Huguenots and the Moors of Spain...
...Harvard Square is a metropolitan business center. Its one department store alone permits it to claim that distinction...