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  • That elite list included my late father, the late Rev. W. Abner Brown of Metropolitan Baptist in Harlem, our family friend Rev. Edward Belton, and a few others, all of whom were black, and with the exception of Rev. Belton, quite dead.†   (source)
  • Its theater contained more than four thousand seats, twelve hundred more than New York's Metropolitan Opera House.†   (source)
  • Since 1970 the population of the Colorado Springs metropolitan area has more than doubled, reaching about half a million.†   (source)
  • Not that I have anything personal against death from our vantage point high atop Metropolitan County Stadium.†   (source)
  • It houses more pieces than the Hermitage, the Vatican Museum, and the New York Metropolitan …. combined.†   (source)
  • At first the room reminded her of one of the period reconstruction displays in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.†   (source)
  • This was the charge Adams took to Adella Prentiss Hughes, a prominent Fortnightly member who had been a promoter of the Metropolitan Opera, the Diaghilev Ballets Russes, and orchestras conducted by Gustav Mahler, Leopold Stokowski and Richard Strauss.†   (source)
  • An opera huff, Aubrey invited me several times to go with him on Saturday nights to the Metropolitan Opera in New York.†   (source)
  • Conned, perhaps, into thinking that the real action was metropolitan and all this was just boring hinterland.†   (source)
  • The public schools were about as good as public schools got in South Florida, and for all its superficialities, Boca Raton had an excellent park system, including some of the most pristine ocean beaches in the Miami-Palm Beach metropolitan area.†   (source)
  • In the first half of the last century there was, in fact, a flourishing metropolitan culture in many parts of Eurpe, not least in Germany.†   (source)
  • Indeed,strong disapproval of such behavior was expressed by all the major networks and large metropolitan dailies.†   (source)
  • Or even a painting by Ruth's new friend Elaine, whose work now hangs in the world's greatest museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art.†   (source)
  • Cars trying to enter the city have already started lining up at the tollbooths of the Metropolitan Expressway.†   (source)
  • The fringe is a large, sort of chaotic place between Chicago and the nearest government-regulated metropolitan area, Milwaukee, which is about a three-hour drive from here.†   (source)
  • Although Moody detested Detroit, he found much less bigotry in the metropolitan environment, and he determined that his professional future lay there, in one capacity or another.†   (source)
  • By contrast, there were only a few hundred Somali Bantu refugees—or Burundians, or Meskhetian Turks, or Burmese Karen—in the Atlanta metropolitan area, and most had arrived at around the same time and were learning the ropes together.†   (source)
  • J. T. Goodrich, stopping at the Metropolitan Hotel at the time of the fire, is anxiously inquired after by his son, J.C. Goodrich, Tradesman's National Bank, Philadelphia."†   (source)
  • Colleen explained that before she'd been designated to Danbury, she had spent time with her two friends in the Brooklyn Metropolitan Correctional Center, aka a federal jail.†   (source)
  • Sheriff Joe, as he's known locally, has had jurisdiction over the city of Phoenix and the greater metropolitan area around it since he was first elected in 1992.†   (source)
  • A boy growing up there could bask in the glitter of company-town commerce, the long shopping streets with their glowing lights and snazzy entertainments, their metropolitan bustle and flair.†   (source)
  • Bird asked what a paleontologist was and Mom said that if he took a complete, illustrated guide to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, shred it into a hundred pieces, cast them into the wind from the museum's steps, let a few weeks pass, went back and scoured Fifth Avenue and Central Park for as many surviving scraps as he could find, then tried to reconstruct the history of painting, including schools, styles, genres, and names of painters from his scraps, that would be like being a…†   (source)
  • She had wanted to walk up from Penn Station to the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Eighty-second and Fifth so we could see the shops and Central Park along the way.†   (source)
  • I suddenly feel very grown-up and metropolitan, like someone in a Woody Allen film.†   (source)
  • The plane entered a turn and Kara looked across Tom at Bangkok's metropolitan skyline, not so different from New York's.†   (source)
  • The bells of the Metropolitan Cathedral rang loudly and struck five times, signifying the hour.†   (source)
  • The Reco-Metropolitan Company, Sheridan Square, New York.†   (source)
  • He knew she found it frustrating trying to run a chic metropolitan magazine from an upstate farmhouse.†   (source)
  • I heard one of my mother's cohorts boasting how last year he'd called in a bomb threat to the Metropolitan Opera House, where Alicia Alonso, the prima ballerina of the National Ballet of Cuba and a supporter of El Líder, was scheduled to dance.†   (source)
  • The Department of the Interior responded by hiring a select group of officers from Washington's Metropolitan Police to protect the great building.†   (source)
  • In the Dallas-Forth Worth metropolitan area, there are rapid changes.†   (source)
  • The Korean money funnels in mostly through the dozens of churches across the metropolitan area.†   (source)
  • I could get a job in the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.†   (source)
  • The Metropolitan Police said it had been the FBI.†   (source)
  • From the rear—particularly where his vertebrae were visible—he might almost have passed for one of those needy metropolitan children who are sent out every summer to endowed camps to be fattened and sunned.†   (source)
  • I mean. we lost the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian, the British Museum, the Forbidden Palace and the Louvre in one day.†   (source)
  • In the South, where most newspapers, even the great metropolitan dailies, have shown themselves shortsighted and uncourageous or—worse—have propagandized as though they were organs of the Councils and Klans, the importance of those newspapers that live up to their journalistic responsibilities cannot be sufficiently emphasized.†   (source)
  • —which was hardly exorbitant by metropolitan standards in that deflated time, and even for Schrafft's profoundly ordinary fare.†   (source)
  • BRADY (With affable sarcasm) Is the counsel, for the defense showing us the latest fashion in the great metropolitan city of Chicago?†   (source)
  • It certainly didn't qualify me to work on Baltimore's great metropolitan daily, the Sun.†   (source)
  • Busy though she was with her teaching, Olive longed for the metropolitan life, and when the young man who had built the flour mill in King City sued properly for her hand, she accepted him subject to a long and secret engagement.†   (source)
  • And so for two weeks they met every day, as if by accident, to walk and talk among the large trees or make pictures in the dirt with sticks or stones, or to listen to the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday afternoon (the thought of her breasts beneath the brassiere and high-collared blouse made him pale), and when he had to leave again she promised she would write.†   (source)
  • And when he took her to the Museum of Natural History, or the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where they were almost certain to be the only black people, and he guided her through the halls, which never ceased in her imagination to be as cold as tombstones, it was then she saw another life in him.†   (source)
  • Bast ditched the Lexus at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.†   (source)
  • I found it just like Nero to go claiming major metropolitan areas that clearly belonged to me.†   (source)
  • And last week the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company sent me a check for one thousand dollars!†   (source)
  • Metropolitan was the church in Harlem back then.†   (source)
  • He also was a good singer and sang in the Metropolitan Baptist Church choir in Harlem.†   (source)
  • The FBI said it had been the Metropolitan Police.†   (source)
  • Thanks for reminding me of how much I hated the Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC).†   (source)
  • "It's about a two-hour drive from Milwaukee, which is a metropolitan area north of here.†   (source)
  • … According to the Reco-Metropolitan's billing files-"†   (source)
  • Only Milton Cross and the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday afternoon.†   (source)
  • "That was my last guess," Clary said with a defeated sigh, sinking down onto the steps outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art and staring disconsolately down Fifth Avenue.†   (source)
  • I could start at any point in my short miserable life to prove it, but things really started going bad last May, when our sixth-grade class took a field trip to Manhattan— twenty-eight mental-case kids and two teachers on a yellow school bus, heading to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to look at ancient Greek and Roman stuff.†   (source)
  • Jewish lawyers (approximately one-half of the metropolitan bar) discovered that their practice had become a 'dignified road to starvation.'†   (source)
  • IBP was eager to ship its products to the New York metropolitan area, the nation's largest market for beef.†   (source)
  • They would have preferred the sorts of venues their American friends choose, the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens or the Metropolitan Club or the Boat House in Central Park.†   (source)
  • When a former colleague of mine mentioned in passing that the Philadelphia Inquirer was seeking a metropolitan columnist, I leapt without a second's hesitation.†   (source)
  • During the trial, Sidney Nicholson — the McDonald's vice president who'd supervised the undercover operation, a former police officer in South Africa and former superintendent in London's Metropolitan Police — admitted in court that McDonald's had used its law enforcement connections to obtain information on Steel and Morris from Scotland Yard.†   (source)
  • "Nearly half of the members of the metropolitan bar earned less than the minimum subsistence level for American families," Jerold Auerbach writes of the Depression years in New York.†   (source)
  • In the meantime, he quietly persuaded friends on the Metropolitan Planning Commission to propose a zoning amendment allowing private tour houses.†   (source)
  • Today, at a time when New York is at the center of an enormous and diversified metropolitan area, it is easy to forget the significance of the set of skills that immigrants like the Borgenichts brought to the New World.†   (source)
  • Abner Brown asked if anyone wanted to join Metropolitan in Christian fellowship I stepped into the aisle and walked to the front of the church.†   (source)
  • Then on Sunday we'd go to the Metropolitan Baptist Church on 128th and Lenox Avenue to hear Rev. Abner Brown preach.†   (source)
  • Abyssinian was a big church too, but they'd line up along 128th Street to get into Metropolitan like it was a rock concert.†   (source)
  • When we came back to New York after burying Dennis, I opened up our mailbox and found it full of checks and money orders and cash in envelopes from people in the projects who knew us, and people from Metropolitan Church in Harlem.†   (source)
  • A few Sundays later we were at Metropolitan and they were singing "I Must Tell Jesus," and the spirit filled me and when Rev. Abner Brown asked if anyone wanted to join Metropolitan in Christian fellowship I stepped into the aisle and walked to the front of the church.†   (source)
  • We went to Metropolitan for a couple of years after moving to Red Hook, but Rev. Brown had died of a sudden heart attack and it became too much to ride the subway all the way up to Harlem every Sunday with all the kids.†   (source)
  • …and after a while I began to listen to what he said about God forgiving you, and I began to hold on to that, that God will forgive you, will forgive the most dreaded sin, because I felt Mameh deserved better from me, and that's when I started going to Metropolitan Church in Harlem with Dennis to hear Rev. Brown preach It helped me to hear the Christian way, because I needed help, I needed to let Mameh go, and that's when I started to become a Christian and the Jew in me began to die.†   (source)
  • On a lark, Beth had once Googled a couple of the artists' names and learned that other works by those artists hung in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.†   (source)
  • An officer from Washington's Metropolitan Police, a force known to be heavily infiltrated by Confederate sympathizers, grabbed him hard by the arm and pulled him back.†   (source)
  • Someday I'll run the Metropolitan!'†   (source)
  • With her black hair freshly cut and a new set of beige robes, Zia looked like she hadn't changed a bit since we first spoke with her at the Metropolitan Museum, even though so much had happened since then.†   (source)
  • A few months later, Houghton took Thomas Hoving, the former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, down to the Getty's conservation studio to see the statue as well.†   (source)
  • "In my second year working at the Met [Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York], I had the good luck of having this European curator come over and go through virtually everything with me," he says.†   (source)
  • On weekends, he enjoyed working with his hands, a break from his white-collar job as a regional inspector for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.†   (source)
  • Just when the situation begins to border on pandemonium, the Metropolitan Police come to their rescue.†   (source)
  • He had arranged meetings of a confidential nature with curators from various museums: New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the North Carolina Museum of Art, and the Whitney, as well as representatives from Duke University, Wake Forest, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.†   (source)
  • In the Maryland and Virginia areas that are part of the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, designated one of hypergrowth for Hispanics, there have been clashes over issuing drivers' licenses and offering the reduced in-state tuition rates to illegal immigrants.†   (source)
  • He asked me what I wanted to become and I said I'd briefly considbrior iered paleontology, and then he asked me what a paleontologist did, so I told him if he took a complete, illustrated guide to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, shredded it into a hundred pieces, cast them into the wind from the museum's steps, etc., and then he asked me why I'd changed my mind, and I told him I thought I wasn't cut out for it, so he asked me what I thought I was cut out for, and I said, "It's a long…†   (source)
  • Once again, they encountered no resistance from the Metropolitan Police; the Americans, it seemed, had been caught flatfooted.†   (source)
  • As we headed into the Loop, I tried to anticipate how best to handle myself at the Chicago Metropolitan Correctional Center, aka federal jail, where people are typically held before their cases are resolved—unless, like LT Kim, they do all their time there.†   (source)
  • His innocence proven again and again, Parker had no qualms about putting his name into the pool when, late in 1864, the Metropolitan Police Department began providing White House bodyguards.†   (source)
  • It will be the only metropolitan area in the country governed by people who don't believe in genetic damage.†   (source)
  • Julie Landsman, who plays principal French horn for the Metropolitan Opera in New York, says that she's found herself distracted by the position of someone's mouth.†   (source)
  • One area, erected on the banks of the river, might be the heart of a Maine waterfront village; another, farther inland, a small Southern town; yet another, a busy metropolitan city street.†   (source)
  • But most new arrivals had been in custody for a while, sometimes since their initial arrest if they had not been granted bail or couldn't make the bail payment, and they were coming from county jails or from federal jails, called MCC, or MDCs—metropolitan correctional centers or metropolitan detention centers.†   (source)
  • The young man's slender proportions looked a lot like those of the Tenea kouros, which is in a museum in Munich, and his stylized, beaded hair was a lot like that of the kouros in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.†   (source)
  • He moves freely throughout Washington, D.C. Since 1862 he has enjoyed military protection beyond the walls of the White House, but it was only late in 1864, as the war wound down and the threats became more real, that Washington's Metropolitan Police assigned a select group of officers armed with .†   (source)
  • "All the other cities—that's where most of the country lives, in these big metropolitan areas, like our city—are dirty and dangerous, unless you know the right people.†   (source)
  • On the neighboring video screen, the blue light of the beacon flashed on a giant digital map of metropolitan Washington.†   (source)
  • Parker served in the Union army for the first three months of the war, then mustered out to rejoin his family and took a job as a policeman in September 1861, becoming one of the first 150 men hired when Washington, D.C., formed its brand-new Metropolitan Police Department.†   (source)
  • "The very first time the new rules for auditions were used, we were looking for four new violinists," remembers Herb Weksleblatt, a tuba player for the Metropolitan Opera in New York, who led the fight for blind auditions at the Met in the mid-1960s.†   (source)
  • Our reach stretches across the country—there's a group for every metropolitan area that exists, and regional overseers for the Midwest, South, and East."†   (source)
  • At that same moment, the Department of Homeland Security issued a vaguely worded warning of a possible terrorist attack on U.S. soil, perhaps in metropolitan Washington.†   (source)
  • He explains the war that the government kept hidden so that no one would know that "genetically pure" people are capable of incredible violence, and the way GDs live in the metropolitan areas where the government still has real power.†   (source)
  • They were in the sitting room of a redbrick Federal house on N Street in Georgetown, the crown jewel of the CIA's vast network of safe houses in metropolitan Washington.†   (source)
  • By the time the first units of the Metropolitan Police had arrived, the three surviving terrorists had crossed the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway on foot and were entering Washington Harbor.†   (source)
  • Johanna successfully negotiated with the government—David's superiors—to allow the former faction members to stay in the city, provided they are self-sufficient, submit to the government's authority, and allow outsiders to come in and join them, making Chicago just another metropolitan area, like Milwaukee.†   (source)
  • The eastbound lanes were still clogged with morning commuter traffic, but before Saladin stretched several car-lengths of empty asphalt, a rarity for the metropolitan Washington motorist.†   (source)
  • …much resembling that of Artiste, had been so classic as to take on the outlines of a grotesque cliché: he had ogled, or molested, or otherwise interfered with (actual offense never made clear, though falling short of rape) the simpleton daughter, named Lula—another cliché! but true: Lula's woebegone and rabbity face had sulked from the pages of six metropolitan newspapers—of a crossroads storekeeper, who had instigated immediate action by an outraged daddy's appeal to the local rabble.†   (source)
  • Occasionally, he escorted clients to the Metropolitan Opera.†   (source)
  • AMANDA [lightly]: Temperament like a Metropolitan star!†   (source)
  • They were going to the Metropolitan Museum.†   (source)
  • During the great battle in France, we gave very powerful and continuous aid to the French Army, both by fighters and bombers; but in spite of every kind of pressure we never would allow the entire metropolitan fighter strength of the Air Force to be consumed.†   (source)
  • If the march was exciting for the children, the metropolitan glories of Carlion were enough to take their breath away.†   (source)
  • Because there were other letters, many of them, gallant flowery indolent frequent and insincere, sent by hand over that forty miles between Oxford and Jefferson after that first Christmas—the metropolitan gallant's idle and delicately flattering (and doubtless to him, meaningless) gesture to the bucolic maiden—and that bucolic maiden, with that profound and absolutely inexplicable tranquil patient clairvoyance of women against which that metropolitan gallant's foppish posturing was…†   (source)
  • At home he devoured Luke's piled shelves of five-cent novels: he was deep in the weekly adventures of Young Wild West, fantasied in bed at night of virtuous and heroic relations with the beautiful Arietta, followed Nick Carter, through all the mazes of metropolitan crime, Frank Merriwell's athletic triumphs, Fred Fearnot, and the interminable victories of The Liberty Boys of '76 over the hated Redcoats.†   (source)
  • Keating read from an article entitled "Marble and Mortar," by Ellsworth M. Toohey: "…And now we come to another notable achievement of the metropolitan skyline.†   (source)
  • Certainly it ought to have a clear window, so that they can see the metropolitan life go by.†   (source)
  • Nor was he lonely later in the evening, in his lodge at the Metropolitan.†   (source)
  • She was getting in the metropolitan whirl of pleasure.†   (source)
  • United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company.†   (source)
  • Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances "above the Forties," of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter in the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy.†   (source)
  • Indeed, from the direction of the Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention.†   (source)
  • The entire metropolitan center possessed a high and mighty air calculated to overawe and abash the common applicant, and to make the gulf between poverty and success seem both wide and deep.†   (source)
  • Though he had been born in the village of Catawba, Babbitt had risen to that metropolitan social plane on which hosts have as many as four people at dinner without planning it for more than an evening or two.†   (source)
  • A few weeks later, through the elaborate investigations of the Metropolitan police, the perambulator was discovered at midnight, standing by itself in a remote corner of Bayswater.†   (source)
  • The atmosphere of the metropolitan seaport, the damp atmosphere of global shopkeeping and prosperity, had been the air of life itself for his forefathers, and with great gusto he breathed it now as a matter of course and found it profoundly satisfying.†   (source)
  • There is a tendency to utilize underground space for the less ornamental purposes of civilization; there is the Metropolitan Railway in London, for instance, there are new electric railways, there are subways, there are underground workrooms and restaurants, and they increase and multiply.†   (source)
  • We have seen the magnificent grandeur and the magnificent achievements of one of the great metropolitan cities of the South.†   (source)
  • High-stepping horses or elaborately equipped motors waited to carry these ladies into vague metropolitan distances, whence they returned, still more wan from the weight of their sables, to be sucked back into the stifling inertia of the hotel routine.†   (source)
  • She threw changing glances at men who passed her, giving smiling invitations to men of rural or untaught pattern and usually seeming sedately unconscious of the men with a metropolitan seal upon their faces.†   (source)
  • At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others — poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner — young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.†   (source)
  • She felt metropolitan.†   (source)
  • He had just got back from a big official reception for the inauguration of the new galleries at the Metropolitan Museum, and the spectacle of those great spaces crowded with the spoils of the ages, where the throng of fashion circulated through a series of scientifically catalogued treasures, had suddenly pressed on a rusted spring of memory.†   (source)
  • 'Placed in a mental position of peculiar painfulness, beyond the assuaging reach even of Mrs. Micawber's influence, though exercised in the tripartite character of woman, wife, and mother, it is my intention to fly from myself for a short period, and devote a respite of eight-and-forty hours to revisiting some metropolitan scenes of past enjoyment.†   (source)
  • Not to hear the words of your interlocutor in metropolitan centres is to know nothing of his meaning.†   (source)
  • As watching is best done invisibly, she usually carried a dark lantern in her hand, and every now and then turned on the light to examine nooks and corners with the coolness of a metropolitan policeman.†   (source)
  • Would it not be better to wait until Mr. Fogg reached London again, and then impart to him that an agent of the metropolitan police had been following him round the world, and have a good laugh over it?†   (source)
  • But Nicholas is my cousin…. one would have to…. the Metropolitan himself…. and even then it can't be done.†   (source)
  • I took what Joe gave me, and found it to be the crumpled play-bill of a small metropolitan theatre, announcing the first appearance, in that very week, of "the celebrated Provincial Amateur of Roscian renown, whose unique performance in the highest tragic walk of our National Bard has lately occasioned so great a sensation in local dramatic circles."†   (source)
  • His cousin had not yet seemed to him so charming as during these days spent in sounding, tourist-fashion, the deeps and shallows of the metropolitan element.†   (source)
  • For by some curious fatality, as it is often noted of your metropolitan freebooters that they ever encamp around the halls of justice, so sinners, gentlemen, most abound in holiest vicinities.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XI TREATS OF MR. FANG THE POLICE MAGISTRATE; AND FURNISHES A SLIGHT SPECIMEN OF HIS MODE OF ADMINISTERING JUSTICE The offence had been committed within the district, and indeed in the immediate neighborhood of, a very notorious metropolitan police office.†   (source)
  • Did you ever hear, most Holy Father, how Diderot went to see the Metropolitan Platon, in the time of the Empress Catherine?†   (source)
  • Besides, the English whalers sometimes affect a kind of metropolitan superiority over the American whalers; regarding the long, lean Nantucketer, with his nondescript provincialisms, as a sort of sea-peasant.†   (source)
  • …occasion, and what must be that occasion in the eyes of the world, and what must be the intelligence of his fellow-countrymen before him, and what must be the wealth and respectability of his honourable friends behind him, and lastly, what must be the importance to the wealth, the happiness, the comfort, the liberty, the very existence of a free and great people, of such an Institution as the United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company!†   (source)
  • All the venerable contrivances and confusions which delighted the eye by their quaintness, and in a measure reasonableness, in this rare old market-town, were metropolitan novelties to the unpractised eyes of Elizabeth-Jane, fresh from netting fish-seines in a seaside cottage.†   (source)
  • They all believe to this day that the infidel Diderot came to dispute about God with the Metropolitan Platon….†   (source)
  • If a stranger were introduced into any miscellaneous metropolitan society, it would but slightly advance the general opinion of his merits, were he presented to the company as a harpooneer, say; and if in emulation of the naval officers he should append the initials S.W.F. (Sperm Whale Fishery) to his visiting card, such a procedure would be deemed pre-eminently presuming and ridiculous.†   (source)
  • …half-a-dozen men were tacking across the road under a press of paper, bearing gigantic announcements that a Public Meeting would be holden at one o'clock precisely, to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning Parliament in favour of the United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company, capital five millions, in five hundred thousand shares of ten pounds each; which sums were duly set forth in fat black figures of considerable size.†   (source)
  • And, after him, came the Scotch member, with various pleasant allusions to the probable amount of profits, which increased the good humour that the poetry had awakened; and all the speeches put together did exactly what they were intended to do, and established in the hearers' minds that there was no speculation so promising, or at the same time so praiseworthy, as the United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company.†   (source)
  • It was with this object that a bill had been introduced into Parliament by their patriotic chairman Sir Matthew Pupker; it was this bill that they had met to support; it was the supporters of this bill who would confer undying brightness and splendour upon England, under the name of the United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company; he would add, with a capital of Five Millions, in five hundred thousand shares of ten pounds each.†   (source)
  • …of government were, about taking up the bill; with a full account of what the government had said in a whisper the last time they dined with it, and how the government had been observed to wink when it said so; from which premises they were at no loss to draw the conclusion, that if the government had one object more at heart than another, that one object was the welfare and advantage of the United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company.†   (source)
  • For that matter, take newspapers, which were popular in such metropolitan centers as Edinburgh or even Perth, but completely unknown in the wilderness of the Scottish Highlands.†   (source)
  • At the corner of Wilde's house he halted, frowned at Elijah's name announced on the Metropolitan hall, frowned at the distant pleasance of duke's lawn.†   (source)
  • The /Metropolitan Magazine/, of which Col. Roosevelt is an editor, announces on its letter paper that it is "the /livest/ magazine in America," and /Poetry/, the organ of the new poetry movement, prints at the head of its contents page the following encomium from the /New York Tribune/: "the /livest/ art in America today is poetry, and the /livest/ expression of that art is in this little Chicago monthly."†   (source)
  • The R. D. F., with our own Metropolitan police, guardians of our homes, the pluckiest lads and the finest body of men, as physique, in the service of our sovereign.†   (source)
  • …lord mayor of Dublin, his lordship the lord mayor of Cork, their worships the mayors of Limerick, Galway, Sligo and Waterford, twentyeight Irish representative peers, sirdars, grandees and maharajahs bearing the cloth of estate, the Dublin Metropolitan Fire Brigade, the chapter of the saints of finance in their plutocratic order of precedence, the bishop of Down and Connor, His Eminence Michael cardinal Logue, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland, His Grace, the most reverend…†   (source)
  • A posse of Dublin Metropolitan police superintended by the Chief Commissioner in person maintained order in the vast throng for whom the York street brass and reed band whiled away the intervening time by admirably rendering on their blackdraped instruments the matchless melody endeared to us from the cradle by Speranza's plaintive muse.†   (source)
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