Word: cosmopolitans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Polio is a cosmopolitan disease, heedless of climate, as deadly in the Arctic as on the Equator. But for some reason, more than half of all cases in the world occur in the U. S. and Canada, in the summertime. Reported cases in the U. S. from 1915 to the end of 1939 total 139,337. About 75%, of polio victims do not develop paralysis, and countless children pass through mild, "abortive," flu-like attacks, which produce complete immunity...
Readers of Walter Dumaux Edmonds' novel about the effects of the American Revolution in the Mohawk Valley, on which this picture is based, may recall the trials of Lana (Claudette Colbert). Softened by the refinements of cosmopolitan Albany, she is suddenly plumped into the cis-Schenectady wilderness by her pioneering husband Gil (worried-looking Henry Fonda). Lana goes into hysterics when the first friendly Mohawk, Blue Back,* pops up in her lonely cabin...
Though not so cosmopolitan as the 29-year-old Stars (whose constellations are scattered all over the world), nor so popular as the eight-year-old Snipes (3,700 registered boats, mostly in the U. S.), the little Comets-fast, sensitive and priced at $300-have multiplied like rabbits in the past five years. Today the Comet Class has 1,500 registered boats, shows promise of zooming to the top of the small-boat heap before its tenth birthday...
...entertainment, The Rains Came suffers from the fact that it uses its salvo of disasters not to solve the problems of its characters, but to heighten them. Since these characters to begin with are as slick and typical a pack as ever cavorted through a Louis Bromfield serial in Cosmopolitan, after the rain they seem sadly washed out and anticlimactic. Chief among them are Tom Ransome (George Brent), a remittance man from a good county family, his old flame Lady Edwina Esketh (Myrna Loy), who deserted him to find a rich husband, and Major Safti (Tyrone Power), the handsome, high...
After 1850 Western mines produced an average $50,000,000 a year in gold and silver. That golden figure is the key to the uneven lives and works of San Francisco's frontier writers. With few exceptions, gold brought them West. Gold brought the sophisticated, cosmopolitan population, the wealth and leisure that make readers, writers and publishers. Because gold was elusive, restlessness and skepticism became a familiar literary tradition. Because male Argonauts outnumbered female twelve to one, traditions of rough-&-ready humor and violence grew apace...