Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poll (chiefly urban) which the Hearst press is conducting last week stood: Hoover, 390,933; Smith, 337,718. Electoral votes (in the 46 states thus far represented) : Hoover, 331; Smith...
...passing of these bosses is significant because they were the advance guard of the revolution which transformed the Democratic Party from the rural dilemma of Bryan and McAdoo to the urban climax of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Election day will determine whether it is a happy climax...
...reason for so drastic an appointment is, of course, that the Russian peasantry still seem disposed to raise only enough grain for their own needs, thus leaving the urban population facing a perpetual grain shortage...
...discomforts or because they dislike to leave their business. "6) Unrestricted traffic in firearms. . . . And Retiring-President Strawn went further. He faced what has been going on around him in Chicago ever since Prohibition. He said: "The crime surveys show that crimes of violence, especially in the urban centres, committed largely by bootleggers and beer runners, have increased to an alarming extent. It is asserted that the existing condition conduces to a growing disregard of all law, especially by our young people, to an extent that is appalling. Frequently we read of policemen and law-enforcing officials being bribed...
...Poem. Rustic Homer and urban Virgil used roundly to invoke the muses before composing an epic. Poet Stephen Vincent Benét, however, narrowly and specifically invokes the "American Muse," by crying, "you are the buffalo-ghost, the broncho-ghost ... a friend, an enemy, a sacred hag with two oceans in her medicine bag . . . and you are . . . the cheap car parked by the station door. . . ." A brief prelude concerning the Yankee slaver that bears its black cargo of misery to America, and quickly the artist sets himself to the stupendous task of setting the panoramic scene, North and South. From...