Word: platinum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next campaign step was to un-prettify handsome, snow-crested Mr. McNutt. Mr. McHale ordered new pictures-stern-visaged photos to de-emphasize the platinum hair, the toothpaste smile. With the rest of his candidate's person Mr. McHale was well enough satisfied, and Paul McNutt continued to go about with baggy, overlong pants draping his slightly bowed legs, unshined shoes on his slightly pigeon-toed feet-an appearance politically pleasing to an electorate which traditionally distrusts the too-snappy dresser...
...week, while the starchier board members still creaked and grumbled, the Los Angeles Philharmonic announced: 1) a move from Los Angeles' solemn, downtown Philharmonic Auditorium to Hollywood's garish Pantages Cinema Theatre, 2) three new conductors: famed German exile Bruno Walter, jovial Russo-Britisher Albert Coates, glamorous platinum blond Leopold Stokowski...
...President Mrs. Royden Keith, who had got Solomon his job, had resigned ("like a bolt from the blue," cooed her co-directors. "Perhaps she felt that the Board was not in sympathy with her policies"). So ex-President Keith had to sit downstairs in an ordinary orchestra seat, while platinum-blonde Acting-President Mrs. James George Shakman (whose Pabst Brewery money helps feed the orchestra's kitty) basked in a box. Beamed she: "We are all working in perfect harmony. . . . The girls are such fine musicians, they should be supported. Why, think of all the money that is spent...
...friends' fault. It is Franklin Roosevelt's-or McNutt's own for trying to block Roosevelt at Chicago in 1932. Ever since then Paul McNutt has been polite to the New Deal, but also ever since then Jim Farley has called McNutt a platinum-haired so-&-so, a feeling which is mutual...
Adolescents who are yanked off to symphony concerts by culture-maddened parents often conceive a permanent dislike for symphonic music. Symphony boards of directors have long wondered how to make these adolescents take it and like it. Six years ago, Philadelphia's platinum-blond Conductor Leopold Stokowski suggested a solution: make the parents stay away. Thereupon he started a series of "Concerts for Youth," sold tickets to youth only (between 13 and 25), got "bouncers" to patrol the aisles of the staid Academy of Music with orders to throw out anyone who looked overage...