Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emperor direct, this peculiar setup often leading to excessive maladjustment between the fighting services. Last week they slugged together to bend back the Chinese line in the country zone outside Shanghai so sharply that it would be impossible for Chinese forces to continue to hold Chapei in the urban zone (see map, p. 19). Tazang was the town at which the Japanese decided to push big, after bombing and shelling it for nearly a month, and last week their assault was highly mechanized...
...among the 60 women professionals now adays engaged in trying to revive what was once a standard U. S. sport. In the days of the great Cora Livingstone (now the wife of Boston's Promoter Paul Bowser), "lady wrestlers" wore black tights and spangled leotards, appeared regularly in urban variety houses and the Police Gazette. Squarejawed, blonde Wrestler Mortensen does neither. Now 21, she has been a professional wrestler off & on since she was seven, when her father, who used to wrestle in his native Denmark, matched her with her brother at an Elks picnic in Portland...
Narrative of The Garden of Adonis is as involved as the writing is simple, alternately shifting from a debt-ridden Kentucky tobacco planter to his white sharecroppers to his daughter Letty's decadent Southern urban life. Still another shift centres more than a third of the story on a Yankee diaper heiress' frustrated Southern husband, who has an affair with the tobacco planter's daughter. To readers who may complain at the chaotic literary result of these shifts, Author Gordon's story argues that it is nothing compared to the living chaos of Southern life since...
...Players (Milford) were all to be going full blast by July 4. The Ivoryton Playhouse, now seven years old, revives shortly thereafter. An unusual arrangement has been made by Day Tuttle and Richard Skinner of the Westchester Playhouse at Mt. Kisco, N. Y. Lawrence Langner, one of the few urban producers who still retains an interest in summer stock, has handed over to them the management of his Country Playhouse at Westport for the summer. Shows which open in the Mt. Kisco theatre will play their second week in the Country Playhouse. Mt. Kisco's and Westport...
...their sewers few city dwellers give a second thought, so basic and taken-for-granted is sewage disposal in urban life. New York City's sewers spout 1,107,000,000 gallons every 24 hours. Chicago's daily 800,000,000 gallons would make a 100-acre lake 40 ft. deep. There is a mile of sewers for every 1,000 persons in the U. S. Even a half-hour suspension of sewage disposal might cripple city existence, but who cares...