Word: cosmopolitans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With a Purpose. Kenneth Anderson brings to the First Army a cosmopolitan point of view which it needs-fighting as it is with French and Americans against Germans and Italians on French, and perhaps eventually Italian, soil. His background is broad. He is a Scot. He was born in India on Christmas, 1891. He was educated in England at Charterhouse and Sandhurst. He fought in France, Syria and Palestine in World War I. Between wars he traveled widely in the Middle East, from Tibet to the Mediterranean. He has spoken French since boyhood and has a good working knowledge...
...cosmopolitan crowd of Manhattan art-lovers trampled each other's elegant toes last week to see an exhibit of paintings by Marc Chagall, one of the least known (in the U.S.) of important modernist painters, the man for whom the word surrealist was first coined...
...Show had neither the old cosmopolitan cast of Europeans and Australians nor the drawing card of a champion (last year's No. 1, Bobby Riggs, turned professional this year). But as the week went on, the galleries began to see that at least one South American and one Californian were playing for keeps...
Women, a Thread. Mills College, tucked in the Oakland hills behind the Golden Gate, was trying to make its summer session a rich and verdant oasis of culture. It certainly seemed a little less rushed, a little more cosmopolitan than other campuses in the busy summer of 1942. This aloofness was in keeping with the philosophy of its president, Mrs. Aurelia Henry Reinhardt, who, still dark-haired at 65, prides herself on maintaining a historical perspective. Mrs. Reinhardt believes that Mills, the Pacific Coast's finest college for women, has a special role in the defense of civilization. "Women...
...uncomplainingly, but admitted it was "too sec." Musicritics complained about the studio's woolliness. Last fall, when Leopold Stokowski took over the NBC Symphony, he balked at playing in Studio 8-H, induced NBC to accept an inconvenient, expensive substitute: moving the orchestra to Manhattan's Cosmopolitan Opera House...