Word: cosmopolitan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...functioning. Its Chairman, shrewd Richard M. Gipson, wrote Mr. Ford: "At this time, when you have magnanimously attested your faith in the Jewish people, it would seem fitting that you should be present at the banquet to be held upon Mr. Levine's return from France. The Rockaways, so cosmopolitan in population, are the home of many distinguished representatives of the Jewish race, and your presence here would be striking evidence of the faith that you attest in them...
...name of Thomas Mann is nowhere near as famous in this country as that of Schnitzler or Wassermann; but in Germany, Herr Mann's novels rank as easily the peers of any written by these other men of a more cosmopolitan appeal. The recent appearance of four of his works in English translations has aroused some interest among discerning readers. The following article was written especially for the BOOKSHELF by a family friend and fellow-townsman of Herr Mann's.-Editor's Note...
Sirs: TIME'S spicy, well written columns are marred by one thing. The magazine is too local. As a newsmagazine it should be more liberal, more cosmopolitan. Since when is Ontario an "American" State,- or Windsor a suburb of Detroit ? Since when is the business of Ontario NATIONAL AFFAIRS of the United States...
...hats and soft hats mingled in cosmopolitan proximity as a crowd both smart and representative of all the provinces of Canada made the merry best of a damp drizzling afternoon. Vice-Royalty attended in the person of Freeman Freeman-Thomas Viscount Willingdon, Governor-General of Canada. In a glittering open coach with outriders and postilions, His Excellency and Viscountess Willingdon rode onto the course; and then, both lovers of horseflesh, strolled eagerly out to the paddock. Only at the last moment before the Plate did they seek the Governor-General...
...Pictures share equally with the writing in story-telling importance. Artist Thomason draws as he writes except that he does it a little better. In sketches full of rapid motion his pen achieves subtleties which his typewriter is too unwieldy to reproduce. The current Cosmopolitan Magazine introduces him as a full-fledged professional illustrator of other people's stories...