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Word: cosmopolitan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decision to examine candidates from the public high schools only on their last year of preparatory work, Princeton makes easier the selection of a more cosmopolitan body. The fact that very few public schools even moderately distant from the Atlantic sea-board prepare directly for the College Board examinations has frequently discriminated against the entrance of students from these institutions into Eastern universities; and his device of Princeton's like the "first seventh" rule at Harvard, is a step towards giving them an equal chance with the graduates of more experienced Eastern schools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUDICIOUS HANDICAPPING | 11/20/1928 | See Source »

...judge. She was educated in a Sacred Heart Convent and the Ziegfeld Follies, drawn for magazine covers, and snapped one day on the beach by a newsreel photographer. Louis J. Selznick, then Napoleon of producers, starred her; later she met William Randolph Hearst and joined his company, the Cosmopolitan. Now with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, she plays golf, stutters when excited, drives a Packard roadster, has a bulldog named inevitably, Buddy. On the lot a butler and cook give her lunch in a $35,000 stucco bungalow; she gets dressed in a room on wheels. She is not married but plots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 19, 1928 | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...hundred thousand lire ($5,230) received by Popular Author Benito Mussolini from Saturday Evening Post and Cosmopolitan was donated, last week, by Prime Minister Mussolini to Fascist charities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Duce Deeds | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...Cosmopolitan Club First Founded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FROM FOREIGN LANDS NOW EXCEEDS 300 MARK | 11/1/1928 | See Source »

...response to a desire for some sort of international society manifested several years ago, there was founded a Cosmopolitan Club. This organization met in the phillips Brooks House at various times for the purposes of discussion upon subjects of international interest. Another organization, the International Club, died early in its infancy for lack of sufficient interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FROM FOREIGN LANDS NOW EXCEEDS 300 MARK | 11/1/1928 | See Source »

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