Word: cosmopolitanly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...YOUR NEWSWEEK McCALL ARTICLE YOU MIGHT ALSO WELL HAVE SAID THAT "MR. WARNER HAD THE SKILL OR LUCK TO PICK" EDITOR HARRY PAYNE BURTON NOW OF COSMOPOLITAN WHO TOOK A HOPELESSLY AMATEURISH PATTERN MAGAZINE FROM A MILLION CIRCULATION TO MORE THAN TWO MILLION...
Able Editor Burton left McCall's in 1927 after five brilliantly successful years, joined Cosmopolitan in 1931. McCall Co.'s other big magazine and Cosmopolitan's rival, Redbook, has been edited since 1927 by quick-thinking Edwin Balmer, who finds time on the side to write many a popular novel, many of them in collaboration with a prolific Redbook contributor, Princeton's Philip Wylie...
...down as the house guest of Ransomer T. V. Soonganding out thousands of words evidently concocted by mutual agreement to dispose of China's greatest kidnapping of all time as smoothly as Britain disposed of the one and only voluntary abdication in her history (see p. 13). Sleek, polished, cosmopolitan Kidnapper Chang declared: "I am by nature rustic, surly and unpolished, an impudent lawbreaker who committed a great crime. ... I was completely unworthy to return with you, Chiang Kaishek, to Nanking, so I have followed you. ... I shall never decline what is beneficial to our country even if it means...
Suggesting little of its author's cosmopolitan experience and business success, The Tallons reaches its climax when Myrtle learns that she can capture Jim Tallon's attention by making fun of his brother's love for her. To buy relief from her mockery of Andrew, Jim is attentive to her, grows more entangled, eventually marries her. But as he watches her with his brother he begins to believe that they have both tricked him, becomes insanely jealous of a woman he does not love, plunges into wild dissipation, beats his wife until his confusions are ended when...
...Duerer", says Professor Burkhard, "turned partly Italian, Holbein became cosmopolitan, Gruenewald remained German." Hence the archaic nature of Gruenewald's work. Nothing of the new formal dignity of the South is in it, no compromise with the fashionable standards of Renaissance art that Holbein surrendered to, and even Duerer did not escape. Instead, one finds all the intensity of the medieval religion of the North. Every work of Gruenewald has a religious subject. He paints a gaunt Christ, suffering the torments of the martyrs--and this in the years when the Raphaels and Peruginos were turning out the sweet, peaceful...