Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every summer, as the best resort from heat and the vapors, the Bullfinches, Allstovers, Timberlakes et al. go to Mary's Neck on the Maine Coast. There they loll on the beaches, collect antiques, sunburns and memories for their coming hibernations in more urban homes...
...Emma Woolley, Sherwood Eddy, Kirby Page, Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, et al.-said they, too, would weigh issues before fighting. Some swore they would never war. Last week, under the leadership of Editor Charles Clayton Morrison of The Christian Century, the U. S. religious press-both conservative and liberal, urban and provincial-squared off, prepared to line up its readers. The Roman Catholic press had already voiced sharp protests...
...treacherous thing to attempt an explanation of all this intellectual gourmandizing, but there is some substantiation for the belief that it arose from the continued urban existence of a large part of the country. There is nothing natural about city life in America today. All entertainment is artificial, it can be obtained with no more effort than the muscular activity involved in loosening the purse strings. Theatres, dances, movies, speakeasies, tabloids, all the conventional forms of amusement are at the beck and call of every man. His mind is a blank screen upon which no impressions are made; his intellect...
...sound criticism, but it goes straight to the heart of the average man who is bewildered and a bit suspicious about where his money goes. The farmer, always seeking for a champion, sees in "Alfalfa Bill" the product of a western agricultural state who is instinctively hostile to the urban plutocracy of the East. The fact that during the past summer in Oklahoma he invariably wore a white cotton suit was not lost on a population suffering from a sharp drop in the price of cotton...
...Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodriguez de Valpuesta. Nobody ever called him anything but Diego Rivera, though many critics call him the greatest mural painter in the western hemisphere. If he is not the greatest, he is certainly the largest. His bulkiest rival. Joseph Urban, tips the scales at 230 Ib. Mural Painter Rivera displaced 250 Ib. the last time he was weighed; friends claim that he has expanded greatly since then...