Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...widespread civilization as well as a high one, for it left the carved facades of its urban centres over what is now British Honduras, Southeastern Mexico, two-thirds of Guatemala and part of "Spanish Honduras." To this oldest American civilization archaeologists have agreed to give the name Maya(pronounce the first three letters like the pronoun my). This is a name of uncertain origin, connected with a late Yucatan capital called Mayapan. It has been extended to cover a great nation which once numbered many millions...
...Parliament assembled last week, Canadians placed many a bet on robust, hearty Premier King and on his traditional rival, sleek, meticulous, former Premier Meighen. The odds stood at about 3 to 1 that the urban aristocrat, Meighen, cannot politically, unhorse Countryman King, who has "broken in" many a horse of flesh and blood...
...Russian revolution, unscrambling them again in Paris-a moderately tasty plot, but lacking romance's true savor. Composers George Gershwin and Herbert Stothart have tried to catch the Slavic note, but the U. S. is too full of sad-singing Russians for their imitators to go undetected. Joseph Urban has spread out the settings with a fine free hand. Choreographer Jack Haskell has set in motion some adept and personable disciples. Ula Sharon, Tessa Kosta, Guy Robertson and a hitherto second-string funny man, Bernard Gorcey, will satisfy the moderately desirous. It is an earnest and expensive effort...
Cables from Damascus reported that the city was last week undergoing practically a state of siege. The French were naturally dominant in the urban quarters by virtue of their artillery, but encircling bands of tribesmen were said to have kept up a practically uninterrupted series of raids on the suburbs. By night large parties of Druses apparently attacked and destroyed portions of the waterworks of Damascus. Over 25,000 of the citizens were estimated to have fled at the beginning of last week...
...urban and native tale of thirty-dollar-a-week people in Manhattan; and how they fought to improve themselves and failed...