Word: cosmopolitans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knowledge of educational trends in other parts of the country will do much to disentangle a Harvard now snared in the meshes of educational reform. The tendency, perhaps not entirely fictional, to regard the country's oldest college as its only college, will be replaced by a much more cosmopolitan realization of Harvard's place in the American scene. No one-sided concern, the Committee can also put some weight on the other side of the scales. Harvard should be a diligent pupil, but it can also be a very efficient schoolmarm. And the cordial relations established by the Committee...
What is there to say? The story is trite, dull, hackneyed, uninspired. it was fired from the slick, sleazy pages of the Cosmopolitan Magazine, and it didn't have any other place to go besides Holly-wood, where it was enthusiastically hailed as a proper vehicle for you know who. It deals with boarding houses and mortgages and saving the old place by opening up a night club, and it was written by Louis Bromfield, who makes a lot of money writing about such things and who gave us "The Rains Came...
...resigning. Cornell Franklin hails from Mississippi, home State of Author William Faulkner (who is married to Cornell Franklin's first wife). A good sport and a fighting gentleman, Cornell Franklin has transplanted the South-mint juleps, hunting dogs, polo, a white house with a proper portico-right to cosmopolitan Shanghai. He and his pretty second wife are tired of all this warrin' and ready for a little Reconstruction...
...their dances International Club members draw on the Wellesley Cosmopolitan Club, an organization of foreign students, and on Radcliffe. Although parietal rules forbid their living at the Club, Radcliffe girls may become associate members; to date only four have availed themselves of the opportunity...
...generally kept locked, and a Christian in Jidda is acutely conscious of the hostile glances of the purely Arab citizens, all of whom carry knives. Christian prospectors for Standard Oil were careful to grow beards and assume native dress. Jidda, however, had no terrors last week for smooth-shaven, cosmopolitan Bert Fish, a wealthy Florida real-estate operator who several times circled the globe before he became finance director of the Democratic National Committee, thence broke into diplomacy. To meet him King Ibn Saud went down from Mecca for a day and Prince Feisal, second of His Majesty...