Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This has aroused southern and eastern European countries to protest against the "discrimination" of the Johnson bill. Citizens of foreign birth likewise protest against the exclusion of their countrymen. Politically this results in opposition to the bill from the representatives of urban districts such as New York, in which the foreign born population is largely concentrated. It also presents a problem to the Republican Party-the possibility of losing New York's electoral votes this year on account of the "foreign born vote." The Japanese Government has protested the provision of the new bill: "No alien ineligible to citizenship...
...April 18, 1920, the great Caruso played in Marta for the last time. The opera was not again played by the Metropolitan Opera Company until last week. Then Marta was produced with Mr. Beniamino Gigli in Caruso's role of Lionel. There was new scenery by Joseph Urban and new comedy business embellishing "one of the most delectable of the tutti-frutti operas." Mme. Alda was lovely as Lady Harriet and Mr. Gigli was lovelorn. His voice was a delight "only exceeded by the great Caruso...
...development of adrenalin, the invention of the cardiograph (for recording heart action on smoked paper), the use of the phonograph to magnify stethoscopic sounds, electric photography of the heart in operation and other innovations have contributed to this result. But the increase of heart strain in our headlong urban life is giving the medical and surgical profession serious cause for worry. Organic diseases of the heart are now the largest single cause of death in the registration area of the United States, having passed both tuberculosis and pneumonia in the last two decades, with 149.7 per 100,000 population...
...last decade Professor Geddes has spent in India and Palestine. He surveyed 50 different cities of India, from Bombay to Calcutta and from Amritsar to Madura, producing comprehensive reports and plans for every department of urban life from sewage and traffic regulation to education. He is an able architect and engineer and has drawn plans for Tagore's new schools in Bengal, for a zoo at Lucknow and a university at Hyderabad. At Bombay he has collected a city-planning exhibition occupying a hall 200 feet long. In Palestine he cooperated with the Zionists in survey work, including plans...
...subscribe to the trade dictum that people like the old jokes best, or that the old tunes can be polished up to look like new, or that stage sets designed by a scenic factory are for all practical purposes as effective as those designed by artists like Joseph Urban and Robert Locher. In short, they do not make the mistake of underrating public taste and intelligence...