Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modern sense of community functions on a larger scale and demands larger areas of local administration well suited to the character of the modern urban community. Moreover, we must look forward to the extension of the essential principles of the city manager plan to approved areas of regional administration. Despite the apprehension in some quarters lost our people find themselves confronted with a group of TVA's threatening to get out of hand, the void in our present system of public administration must be filled by the development of regional administrative mechanisms...
...farmer friends, to whom he had promised "40 acres and a mule," was wild-eyed, unbrushed, gallus-snapping Eugene Talmadge, former (1933-37) Governor. In second place by the early counts, but running strong, was the Purge-marked incumbent, conservative Senator Walter Franklin George. Before the later, urban returns showed the election's true trend, Candidate Talmadge & friends began to celebrate loudly. "The only way George or his supporters could carry Georgia," Mr. Talmadge announced, "would be to buy or steal...
Most titanic rebel in the group of legendary rebels which You Can't Take It With You assembles in the living room of a shabby urban household is Grandpa Vanderhof (Lionel Barrymore), retired for 35 years because he decided one morning 'that working was no fun. His daughter, Penny Sycamore (Spring Byington). writes plays because someone once delivered a typewriter to the house by mistake; his son-in-law (Samuel Hinds) manufactures fireworks in the basement; his granddaughter, Essie (Ann Miller), studies ballet with a ferociously impecunious Russian (Mischa Auer); and the assorted camp followers of the Vanderhpf...
...senior year they had explored many fields that ordinary high-school students seldom know-Columbus slums. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., the position of women in Byzantine civilization, the motion picture industry, alchemy. They went to Detroit and New York City to study labor, industry and urban living...
Primary need of the theatre business is crowds with money. Consequently, the theatre has always been an urban institution. About ten years ago, a variety of circumstances, including talking pictures and U. S. vacation habits, gave impetus to that paradoxical phenomenon: the summer theatre in the country...