Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inspired by Fuller, metropolitan papers report that the Big Green is woefully weak in material. Injuries and academic standards have riddled the team's prospects. The boys are so small that Fuller in an optimistic moment labelled them the "mighty mites." Why, there's not a man over 250 pounds...
During World War I, while Germans dropped a few bombs on London, Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House dropped Richard Wagner's operas, the Boston Symphony dropped Conductor Karl Muck, and U. S. concert artists valiantly searched their attics for Italian, French and Russian substitutes for the tunes of Beethoven and Brahms...
...Counsellor in American History in Adams House last year, Hicks was the brunt of numerous attacks by alumni, local politicians, and the metropolitan press. The University's refusal to give Hicks a permanent appointment following his one year term caused an equally intense stir in undergraduate circles...
Lawyer Key hated the War of 1812; shortly before he wrote his song was tempted to wish the eagle-screaming Baltimoreans would indeed be conquered. Descendant Key-Smith firmly believes that anyone can sing his ancestor's anthem. Last July, when Metropolitan Tenor Frederick Jagel said no singer could be at home on a range like that, Lieut. Colonel Key-Smith snorted: "Any real tenor who says he can't sing The Star-Spangled Banner is a fool...
...move in on the campus is slight, baldish, bright-looking, tweedy Dale Nichols, 35. School begins for him this week at the University of Illinois, whose trustees, impressed because he won a $300 William Randolph Hearst prize at a Chicago Art Institute exhibit in 1935, because Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum bought and hung his End of the Hunt, because he is a two-fisted advocate of "beauty" v. "ugliness" in art, last summer appointed him for one year, first art apostle to the Illini under a five-year Carnegie Foundation grant...