Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Goose & Killer. In Los Angeles, Policeman Ernest Young was suspended for taking from C. S. Smith Metropolitan Market, in addition to his usual free apple: two quarts of milk, a bottle of whisky, a loaf of bread, four rolls of toilet paper, and portions of toothpaste, shaving cream and skin cream...
...evening a fortnight ago a tall, slim, sandy-haired man in street clothes sat on a desk in the wings of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House and watched the Sadler's Wells Ballet performance of Apparitions. From time to time, when she wasn't on stage, prima ballerina Margot Fonteyn came over to talk to him. TIME's Chandler Thomas, having sat through five performances of different ballets out front, wanted to see how ballet looked from backstage. He was getting ready for this week's cover story on Miss Fonteyn...
...Manhattan police court, the Metropolitan Opera's Lauritz Melchior helped to win dismissal of a complaint against the Korn Kobblers, a band of zany musicians. The police charge: the band had been riding along Broadway, making "unnecessary noise" with instruments that included "a pipe, a washboard and something that looked like an inverted spittoon." Testified Melchior: some musicians, like Wagner, are simply ahead of their time. He assured the judge that to his sensitive ear, the Korn Kobblers were "expressing themselves in true American folk music...
...Marshal Tito, accustomed over recent months to editorial broadsides in the Soviet press, became the target of a gossip item in Moscow's Literary Gazette. The paper reported that Tito was in the clutches of an alluring "American spy"-sleek, slinky-eyed Zinka Milanov, 43, onetime Metropolitan Opera star and since 1947 the wife of Ljubomir Ilic, one of Tito's generals. Pooh-poohed Zinka from Belgrade: "It's just silly...
...Eliot Bridge will serve as a crucial and long-needed link between the communities south of the Charles and the Concord Turnpike, between the northern and southern halves of the western section of the metropolitan district. If you have trouble getting across the Anderson Bridge to the Stadium this afternoon, remember the ageless war cry: "Wait till next year...