Word: cosmopolitan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would undoubtedly have voted for you"), had the city in his pocket virtually from the beginning, even though registration is overwhelmingly Democratic. In his wild-swinging campaign, Opponent Wolden accused Christopher's administration of permitting San Francisco to become national headquarters of "organized sex deviates." The charge, which cosmopolitan San Francisco considered bad manners, queered Wolden with most of his fellow Democrats and all the city's newspapers. Christopher's big bipartisan victory set him up as one of California's few surviving victorious Republicans and a man with a future...
...Europe there is no street quite so lively, quite so cosmopolitan or quite so zany as Rome's Via Veneto-the broad, tree lined avenue known to Italy's American colony as "the Beach." And for a decade past, the heart of the Beach has been the polyglot, block-long Caffé Doney. There in the soft Roman night, Italians and tourists alike sat till the wee hours beneath bright sidewalk umbrellas, sipping whisky, apéritifs or coffee, and watching the Via Veneto's endless parade of smartly dressed girls, pomaded gigolos and international celebrities, ranging...
...that your correspondent did not mention the cosmopolitan atmosphere of the hotel. But, then, perhaps the press invasion had displaced the habitues. Among those who stayed at but not in the Constellation were Georges, the French opium addict, and Monsieur the counterfeiter...
From the cockney and king's English of My Fair Lady, past the pure Iowa corn of The Music Man to the pidgin of Flower Drum Song, the best of the musicals make a cosmopolitan chorus. Redhead sings along only because Gwen Verdon calls the tune...
...thought it wouldn't happen here.'' groaned a Swiss banker last week. ''But the whole world seems to be caught by a frenzy of speculation. If this goes on. something serious is bound to happen pretty soon." On Zurich's conservative and cosmopolitan Effektenborse. stock prices moved sharply up and down. Alpine fashion, and many an unsavvy investor plunged in with gusto. "For the first time." said another stiff-lipped Zurich banker, "our market is pulling in the barbers, the bakers and the waiters...