Word: metropolises
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The pretensions of all these are as dust compared to the potential glory of Jane Carroll. She was born in Louisville, Ky., but she came to Manhattan long ago, to play in the Follies. Therefore she is no foreigner to the metropolis and its denizens would be glad to see...
"The noble lord," sneered the sarcastic Earl, "has condemned the present management of public houses in London on the basis of his penetrating observation. . . . I am not interested in the noble lord's personal perambulations of the metropolis. The noble lord happened to be in a neighborhood of wretched public...
Four weeks ago (TIME, April 23) there was a pause in the criss-cross race which Lady Sophie Heath (Sir James' wife) was having with Lady Mary Bailey (Sir Abe's wife). Lady Sophie was down in Cairo, fuming at British officials because they had cautiously padlocked her...
In no U. S. metropolis is the president of a university as important a local figure as the president of the University of Chicago. His name is put on reception committees, figures in civic drives. He is a bigger frog in Chicago than Nicholas Murray Butler is in Manhattan. So...
¶ Entering a huge, three-engined Imperial Airways plane, Amir Amanullah circled boldly over London, and was politely hailed by the British press as the first reigning sovereign to do so. Doubters recalled that Their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians have used the air route to and...