Word: cosmopolitans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends were allowed the use of courts in men's clubs at odd hours. When Manhattan and Philadelphia clubs added courts to keep up with the sudden growth of men's squash racquets, women took to using them. The Junior League in Manhattan built two courts, the Cosmopolitan Club another. There are now 17 clubs in the Metropolitan (Manhattan) Women's Squash Racquets League, formed last autumn. In Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, women use men's courts whenever they get a chance. Last week the sixth women's squash racquets championship had a special importance...
...Alfred E Smith's New Outlook. Various radical weeklies in the U. S. and in Great Britain pecked at the subject. Meanwhile the drawing room chatter kept up; Technocracy became a vogue; the slower-moving magazines rushed m. Harpers for January carries an article as will the March Cosmopolitan (with foreword by the now somewhat embarrassed President Nicholas Murray Butler). The Saturday Evening Post expects one by Banker Vanderlip when he has discovered and verified what facts the Technocrats possess. Even precious Vanity Fair (December) touched gingerly on Technocracy & Scott...
...successful showgirl, the like of which Miss, Davies has played at least twice, probably oftener, but the lively lines save it. When one sees the Maid Marion in her usual role of a minx, it is clear why her pictures appear so often on the pages of Hearst's Cosmopolitan and in the Boston American. Of course an unfeeling and unsympathetic director made Miss Davies show maternal instinct over a dog, a part difficult to reconcile with the fact that she is a Colonel in the Unites States Army, but perhaps she is really maternal after all, and the public...
...Hearst Cosmopolitan this month printed a drawing of Mrs. Roosevelt with rosebud lips opposite a most unflattering portrait of Lou Henry Hoover, both by able Portraitist James Montgomery Flagg. Macfadden's touching Babies Just Babies, edited by Mrs. Roosevelt, was born last week...
...mark in the days of four-inch collars and wicked "Interests." Even then his collars were higher, his crusading zeal hotter than most. Many a reader remembers well the fuss & fury roused by his expose of Senators DePew, Aldrich, Knox, Foraker, Platt et al. in a Cosmopolitan magazine series called "The Treason of the Senate." President Roosevelt, irked by this intrusion on what he considered his private hunting ground, first used his pet word "muckraker" in veiled denunciation of the author...