Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked something like moving day at a metropolitan bank. Each of the two private cars that pulled up in front of Yale University's library had four big metal chests inside-and an armed guard. Nobody actually expected hijackers, but Yale, egged on by the insurance companies, was taking no chances. The chests held the private papers of James Boswell, biographer of Samuel Johnson and pertinacious observer of the 18th Century in general...
Negroes have been barred from the 8,700-apartment development since it was built by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. with some generous financial help from New York City (the city condemned the property so that Metropolitan could buy it easily, exempted the company from real-estate taxes on the new buildings for 25 years). Three Negro veterans, denied apartments, went to court. They argued that the city itself was encouraging racial discrimination...
Last week, New York State's highest court, by a 4-10-3 vote, upheld Metropolitan's Jim Crow policy. The Negroes' next stop: the U.S. Supreme Court...
Opera Singer Kirsten Flagstad had to take vinegar with her tea. Manhattan's Metropolitan, which had snubbed her as a suspected Nazi sympathizer during her first postwar visits to the U.S. in 1947-48, came up with an offer for next season (she turned it down because of previous concert bookings). Meanwhile, in San Francisco, trustees of the War Memorial Opera House canceled her four performances scheduled for this fall, "because of the controversial character of her public appearances elsewhere in the United States...
...explained in the current Bulletin of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, such fears were more than justified. Robbers did make off with his mummy, and for good measure, or for fear of the Master's ghost, they smashed his reserve head as well. Dug up by archaeologists in 1936, the pieces were plastered together again, finally sold to the Metropolitan. On exhibition at the museum last week, the proudly tilted head was one of the earliest examples of portrait sculpture known. The nostrils (to Egyptians the seat of life) had been carved with special care, presumably so that...