Word: metropolises
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As literary sensations then went, The Jungle (1905) flaying Chicago's stockyards, The Metropolis (1908) flaying Manhattan and The Brass Check (1919) flaying journalism, were equivalent to the later temblors of Main Street and Babbitt. And it may be to the ian, constitutes himself the scourger of Vulgarity. Upton...
"The varied and imposing celebrations" of last week naturally had their focus at Ottawa-that now great and flourishing metropolis the site of which Queen Victoria chose as the Capital of Canada by a most quaint expedient (1858). Her Majesty closed her eyes, gestured with her right hand and brought...
Three days after the Bellanca-Martine announcement, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh emerged from conferences in Washington to speak five sentences concerning "the establishment at an early date of a passenger-carrying air transport line that will be national in its scope." Possible allies of Colonel Lindbergh are such men as...
Of Cardinal Hayes's plans to erect a home in the Bowery, Manhattan, for homeless men, The Commonweal, sophisticated Catholic weekly, last week reported: "There is no other part of the great metropolis which displays so much of poverty's backwash-tired women in frayed dresses of years...
This lurid statement has caused great mortification to the many readers of your magazine in Hankow, as well as to the said Butterick, who is made the subject of such unfortunate publicity. It cannot be denied that there exists an ample supply of this form of ammunition in this turbulent...