Word: cosmopolitanly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years out here in the East, have been in contact with Americans all along but I have so far not found one who had the nerve you seem to have. As said above this 30 years have made me pretty well cosmopolitan, but still I am a German and honour my country, and to be sure I have seen many a dirty article but yours is the limit. Why throw dirt on our Prime Minister Hitler, why run down Hindenburg, both men who have done much more than you will ever be able to. Your whole writing shows that...
...Heart (Cosmopolitan) gives Marion Davies a chance to say "Wurra-wurra" and wear her hair in pigtails, the accepted procedure for actresses who, in this strangely enduring sentimental comedy, revive the role which Laurette Taylor originated in 1912. The play deals, as everyone knows, with an old Irish fisherman, the antithesis of the savage angler in I Cover the Waterfront (see above), and his daughter who inherits ?2,000,000. With her small mongrel Michael, she goes to England to live in a manor house where she squabbles with the butler, falls in love with a young solicitor, is informed...
...voice and low comedy face when he is slowly choking to death in a room full of gas. tapping the wall with a hammer and unable to understand why none of the crew, whom he can see through a panel of glass, comes to let him out. Looking Forward (Cosmopolitan). The title of this picture, noisily borrowed from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's book with the President's permission, has almost no pertinence at all. Looking Forward, adapted from a London play by C. L. Anthony, is neither political tract nor visionary romance; it is a department store homily...
...Scribners," and "Current History" only four or five copies each week are sold, the Freshmen purchase forty of the weekly "New Yorkers." As for college humorous magazines, the first-year men demand more "Yale Records" than "Harvard Lampoons." Several hundred of the regular monthly illustrated magazines, such as "Cosmopolitan" and the "American," are bought each month; and in the "quality" class, "Vanity Fair," "Sportsman," and "Yachting" are the most popular...
...Cosmopolitan). Judson Hammond (Walter Huston) when elected President of the U. S. is a free & easy party politician, addicted to undignified jollities and speeding in his automobile. When he blows out a tire at 98 m.p.h., he gets concussion of the brain. During his convalescence there are peculiar sounds of music in the sickroom; the curtains shake in what might have been a breeze. When President Hammond recovers, he is a changed man. His female secretary (Karen Motley) tells his male secretary (Franchot Tone) that she thinks the Angel Gabriel may be hovering about the White House...