Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Civil War was dominated by the middle class. Seven Governors were "aristocrats by courtesy only." He adduced other statistics reducing the governing aristocracy of the South to "a soothing but insalubrious myth." Another observation: City v. Country. "Stupendous pyramiding" of city populations has increased the differences and misunderstandings between urban and rural dwellers. Let city men improve their city government. And let country men let city men gov ern themselves their own way. While city and country reformers quarrel over moral and religious issues especially in the South, in dustrialists are quietly entrenching themselves "behind strong federal breastworks" of which...
...English countryside. It must be admitted that trip in a wherry or a single, reveals a scene dissimilar to this. "The boatsman is seldom out of sight, during the lower half, of his journey, of apartment houses and the stadium: and lest the forget that he is still in urban surroundings he is reminded of the fact at least once by a small boy who wants to be taken for a ride; thus demonstrating the eternal optimism of youth, since it is doubtful if since the founding of the college such a request has been granted...
...Trades Union Hall, Moscow, a huge blood-red disc above the stage, bearing the Hammer and Sickle, emblems of Soviet Russia, was hung. A vast crowd surged- peasants in blouses, urban workers in tight, shoddy store clothes. They had come to hear the first public speech in four months by Russia's greatest orator, famed Leon Trotzky. All knew that M. Trotzky had been silent perforce, following the crushing of his section of the Communist party by Dictator Josef Stalin (TIME, Oct. 25). When Comrade Trotzky slipped upon the stage last week, pale, wiry, magnetic, there was stamping, applause...
...last week the cadets of Urban Military Academy (Hollywood), rose as usual from dinner, began to march out. Jackie Coogan, 12, cinema boy, now a cadet, seized a pepper pot, threw pepper at one Brin of Bjorkman. For this, he was demoted from rank of corporal to private...
Just before he sailed for Europe on the Leviathan one day last week, Otto Hermann Kahn, patron of Art, briefly announced the designation of Benjamin Wistar Morris and Joseph Urban as the two architects who will plan the new Metropolitan Opera House. He indicated that he hoped the performances of the architects would be as void of modernism as opera itself...