Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...look-upon girls, the main offerings are singing and dancing numbers, rather than comedy. The show contains but few excuses for laughter, and it is here, despite the efforts of Fannie Brice and Van and Schenck, that one regrets the absence of such favorites as Eddie Cantor. Joseph Urban contributes his gorgeous settings, and Ben Ali Haggin takes a hand in the spectacular design of the "Love Boat." The recently much-press-agented Mary Eaton makes her Follies debut with graceful toe dancing and a couple of songs, but her comparatively unknown namesake, Doris, is fully as pleasing and deserves...
What is the significant fact about these census figures? Economists assure us there is no danger in the concentration of people in urban districts; the varying rates with which some states are gaining or losing are relatively unimportant. But the fact that well over a quarter of the increase in population of this country in due to the excess of immigration over emigration--and that in spite of the war time restrictions--is very significant. Moreover we read that steerage passage has been sold out till February, that literally thousands are planning to come to this country immediately. Any right...
...middle west are the great exponents of this Americanism. American traditions and ideals are today the dominant element in their citizenship. If the country is to be saved from the general demoralization of the present day, it will be saved by this population and not by the urban population with their narrow class consciousness and antagonism, their splenetic attitude and petty quarrels. And there is no man who so completely embodies this broad and constructive spirit of nationalism as Governor Allen...