Word: cosmopolitanization
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...night last week the association held an anniversary dinner in Manhattan's Cosmopolitan Club. Miss Hazel Corbin, who joined the association as a trained nurse in 1919 and became its general director in 1923, announced a new goal. The association would now like to see the principles of psychosomatic medicine applied to childbirth. Said Miss Corbin, a vigorous, greying 53: "The emergency death-preventing job which has been done in maternity care has exacted a price in emotional coinage and human dignity. When the obstetric care of the mother was moved from the home to the hospital to save...
They come in two price classes, though the exact prices have not yet been set. One, the Lincoln Cosmopolitan, has about the same wheelbase as the 1948 Lincoln, but is slightly heavier and is expected to sell for a little more (over $3,000). The other, called only the Lincoln, is a little shorter, lighter, and will probably sell in the $2,500-$2,700 price class, below the price of the 1948 Lincoln. The $4,800 custom-built Lincoln Continental, discontinued until next year, will be redesigned...
...Connor's stories are set in small Irish towns where good-natured, bumbling provincials doze through their days in even rhythms, scarcely touched by the frenetic spleen of cosmopolitan existence, and only occasionally shaken into surprised awareness of life's complexities. While these neat tales unfold, Author O'Connor remains in the background, rarely moralizing...
Probably the most cosmopolitan spot in the world today is the front parlor where President Eliot married for the second time. The old Thayer house at 5 Philips Place has become even more a meeting place of nations than the UN in recent years, as students from 58 countries gather nightly in its Colonial-style rooms to sip tea, meet new friends, and carry on bull sessions in an atmosphere many degrees more cordial than that at lake Success. Now known as the International Student Center, the pillared, yellow-clapboard house near Radcliffe yard echoed to the first of many...
...storm, Adela Manasse, wife of the pension's proprietor, is found dead in her tub, naked and smiling a "kindly" smile. How did she die and why did she smile? Original Sin explores this problem amid swirls of windblown sand and snarls of plot typical of Cosmopolitan magazine fiction-which is, in fact, what this novel...