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...root of the evil is urbanism or metropolitanism. The metropolis grows by attracting to itself the population of the country, which, as soon as it becomes urbanized, becomes barren. . . . The progressive sterility of city dwellers is in direct ratio to the rapidly monstrous growth of the city. Berlin, which in one century passed from 100,000 to more than 4,000,000 inhabitants, is today the most sterile city in the world. The bigger a city becomes the more barren it becomes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Big Black Words | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

Last week, in Colorado Springs, a jury decided that the Broadmoor Hotel should pay $10,000 to one Malcolm McConnell. In that hotel, a monstrous monkey had bitten him on the nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jul. 23, 1928 | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...radio was going. Shortly after the monstrous voice of John L. McNab was heard, at about eight o'clock, the radio sounded as if it had broken. It began to roar, hum, shriek, blare, clatter. The Beaver Man's name had been placed before the convention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Jun. 25, 1928 | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

Proud, swashbuckling Brigadier General José Alvarez-since 1924 Chief of Staff to President Plutarco Elias Calles-is suspected of being a monstrous smuggler, a multifaced Judas, a thoroughgoing rapscallion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Rapscallion | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...fact that an African potentate presented Queen Maria Theresa, the consort of Louis, with a Negro dwarf. So fond of the monstrous little character did the Queen become, that her ladies too acquired dwarfs. Soon it became a fashion. The affection which these ladies lavished upon their horrible pets was touching and delightful. Maria Theresa, indeed, would often invite her dwarf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Black Dwarfs | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

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