Word: metropolitanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excellence, the glory of their age must leave their royal master. Sportsmen sigh, men of fashion are beginning to attend automobile shows and shop girls sob. Everywhere are heard encomiums tinctured with the sorrow of seeing the brilliance of the present fading into the obscurity of the past. Great metropolitan newspapers weep by the column for the glory that once shone on these princely steeds. The world is mourning and grimly faces the dark future...
Even if you are one of those for whom the words "every character speaks" constitute an advertisement, "The Dummy", feature picture at the Metropolitan this week, will probably be pretty tiresome for you. It opens up the practically untouched field of child kidnapping. The estranged parents are brought together when little Mickey Bennett rescues their fair-haired daughter, letting himself be kidnapped as the deaf and dumb son of a millionaire...
...Swope, redheaded, blue-shirted, jut-jawed journalist, left his post as executive editor of the New York World on Jan. 1. Thereafter, many a fellow-journalist pondered the Swopian future. What would he do, this man of 47 surcharged with energy, wealth, self-confidence? Would he buy a great metropolitan daily? Would he go into politics, write a book, be tsar of some industry? Or would he just twiddle his talented thumbs...
There is more to it than that, more to it, even than a sly thrust at Lampy and his humor. For The World knows its Harvard, knows the hopes that come with each Freshman Class and leave again, sometimes, with the seniors. And in it all the great metropolitan daily sees a significant object lesson. Old Gold goes down, but the fight goes on, and when the final smoke from the fray has cleared persistency will win the day. For dejected Freshmen remains the moral: Not a defeat in a class full...
...Metropolitan -- "Redskin". In which the dust bites another Indian...