Word: metropolises
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When once the author has married his unmarried mother, the novel becomes a story instead of a stage set, but with no change of heart on the part of the writer. The couple live together long enough to give Mr. Sergel a chance to expose the 'young married" life of...
The Story. The Marches' position in the Middle-Western metropolis of St. Pierre was assured ? weren't they the children and grandchildren of old Andrew March who had always saved his pennies and whose name was still a byword for the good old rock-bound kind of success? And...
A curious financial operation is under way in New York's Italian quarter. The metropolis has witnessed quite a variety of surprising share-vending projects, but this one exceeds all others in singularity.
Pitying the cinema has attained the proportions of a national pastime. Breathes there a man with brain so dead that he has not repudiated those curly co-eds eating ice-cream cones on the campus; those red-blooded "Society folk" with midnight bathing parties; those flat-footed vampires; Will Hays...
In the wake of Emile Coué, many innovations, scientific and otherwise, have followed. There is, for instance, " Sister" Mabel Harrell, nurse of New York, who has effected miraculous " cures" in Harlem, Negro enclave of the metropolis. Cripples, paralytics, the blind and deaf, idiot children have flocked to her meetings in...