Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Defects of the teeth are the most frequent and most numerous of all the health defects of childhood. In the great majority of the schools, both rural and urban, of this proud and prosperous nation, from 50 to 98% of the children have defective teeth?health defects which are actually or potentially dangerous and detrimental to health, normal development, and to sound education. The correction of the dental defects of the youth of America is the largest problem in the entire range of correction of remediable physical health handicaps...
...followed tradition in hearing a speech from the U, S. Attorney General. Last year big Harlan F. Stone warned against shyster and semi-shyster attorneys This year big John G. Sargent warned against the same. He, a country lawyer, pointed out the tendency among urban attorneys to advertise themselves, to present "surprise" evidence, to forget the veneration which in less noisy times was paid to the great Principles of Justice...
...indeed a far cry from the semi-cloistered life of Williams College to the urban, noisy existence of a student at Harvard University. Those of us who entered Harvard Law School last September were quickly made aware of the fact, and for several months we termed ourselves "Williams in China." Verily if we had gone to Joochow for a postgraduate course we should have found the methods of study no less unfamiliar than those to which we had to adapt ourselves here...
Some time ago, in a learned article on legal punctuation, Urban A. Lavery wrote in the American Bar Association Journal...
...city life as a healthful environment, and it may well be that the virtues of citizenship can flourish as vigorously under the elevated tracks as around the little red schoolhouse. If the Chicago experiment succeeds in defining good citizenship and in demonstrating that such high ideals are fostered by urban life, it will have done a most commendable service...