Word: cosmopolitans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trip Across, a Hemingway short story, appeared in Cosmopolitan Magazine April, 1934, with minor changes formed one of the episodes in To Have and Have...
...present 1,700,000 circulation came in generous leaps & bounds as the monthly became a fortnightly. But Look did not decide to accept advertising until three months ago when the Brothers Cowles took Ned Doyle, a wiry, 34-year-old Hibernian, from the eastern advertising managership of Cosmopolitan. Mr. Doyle was given 13 solicitors and sent to sell space, warned not to accept hard liquor, beer or objectionable patent medicine...
...Society. Even less like a fighting machine was the convention out of session. A joy to Denver's hotelmen, the unionists ate expensively, drank extensively, took all the best rooms and confined their fun mainly to poker. Mr. Green stayed in an $18-per-day suite in the Cosmopolitan Hotel, where he was served by a union waiter, had his bed made by a non-union chambermaid. Across the street in the Brown Palace, Michael Carrozzo of the Hod Carriers, Building & Common Laborers' Union had a $15-per-day suite. Two delegates from the International Union of Operating...
Taking up the fortunes of Julian Bern, cosmopolitan young English intellectual, where Europa dropped them. Author Briffault discovers his hero holidaying in Belgium with Zena, his current mistress. War has been declared, and the German invasion quickly comes too close for comfort. Julian and Zena escape to England, hoping to live there quietly as spectators of a world gone mad. They soon find both England and their chosen role impossible. Zena goes back to her native Russia; Julian despairingly enlists. Thereafter the narrative is governed less by probability than by convenience: coincidences pop up as required, scenes shift and actors...
With a sense of humor befitting his heavy frame, Herbert Fleishhacker is today one of those unusual personalities who cause some travelers to describe San Francisco as the most cosmopolitan city in the U. S. His close cronies find amusement at his joy in a wager at golf, bridge, backgammon, dominoes, his even deeper desire to win at all of them. They have long since become accustomed to his practical jokes, are not surprised when he hands out explosive cigars, shaves during business conferences, becomes irrepressibly boisterous. And shrewd Mr. Fleishhacker now finds his name firmly imbedded in local projects...