Word: cosmopolitanization
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Wailed one of his French critics: "He compared the shepherds of primitive Latium to the shepherds of Texas; the ancient Romans to the Boers; the Roman electoral body to the cosmopolitan demagogy of the United States; Rome itself to London, Paris, New York, Berlin, Milan; and Lucullus to Napoleon. He talks about capitalism, parliamentarism, imperialism, feminism . . . clubs, meetings, high life. . . . Cato is a landlord; M. Aemilius Scaurus a self-made man; Caesar a socialist leader, a Tammany boss...
...known now that I am not and never have been an anti-Semite; and that Christ's words: "Love thy neighbor as thyself" have a thoroughly cosmopolitan meaning for me. Catholic, Christian, and Jew can and ought to cooperate in preserving this nation at peace. It is regrettable that thus far such cooperation has not been achieved by those of us who are striving mightily for it. Certainly, in injecting this anti-Semitic note TIME magazine has contributed nothing to our efforts...
...Most likely to be modern were schools in good-sized suburban towns with a cosmopolitan, well-educated population and enough money to spend at least $2,000 a year for each elementary class...
...cosmopolitan British force at Cheren was led, and its every move was planned, by a thin-faced, Mephistophelean-appearing figure, Lieut. General William Platt, 55. An old hand on Britain's practice field of war, the Indian North-West Frontier, General Platt has for three years been Raid d'Amm (Arabic for General Officer Commanding) of the Sudan.In two of those years, his dark hair went white. Raid d'Amm Platt, who always carries a fly-whisk instead of the usual stick, has been something of a heretic in his handling of native troops: he cannot...
Died. Bailey Millard, 81, oldtime editor of Cosmopolitan and Munsey's magazine who as literary editor of the San Francisco Examiner first published Edwin Markham's Man With the Hoe (1899), helped introduce the writings of Poet Joaquin Miller; in Los Angeles...