Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tammany Farmers" series,* quiet and conventional. The Tribune has to be wet in Chicago and no organ in the city that gave William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson to the G. O. P. can afford to go very strongly on the Tammany-corruption theme. The "Tammany Farmers" series has stressed urban ignorance and presumption rather than any sinister note. Quite as characteristic of the G. O. P. sermons which the Tribune's front page often preaches, such as a picture of "Uncle Sam" painting a sign on the Capitol: "Wanted!?Man to head largest industrial, agricultural and commercial organization...
...transition to a new and sober era is not going to be easy. The American people are in a mood of invincible optimism. Three years ago they were speculating in Florida real estate and finally that bubble burst. They then speculated in urban real estate. . . . Now they have turned to the stockmarket, where prices of the stocks of mail order houses, chain stores, motor companies and soft-drink firms are selling on a basis to yield half as much as the obligations of the U. S. government...
...Gold Coast" dormitories has not changed since passing from the jurisdiction of the private owners. Never straggling or ugly these dormitories are to be noticed for their substantial construction and orderly arrangement. Above the ordinary height of college dormitories, and admirably designed they are in dignified harmony with their urban surroundings...
...called out from loyal sons and disinterested beauty lovers rhapsodic utterances that have become a part of the race. The beauty that was Cambridge is hardly less dear to those who knew it before all parkways were Metropolitan. But there is a mile of the Charles that forgets its urban surroundings, and is still part of a Harvard education...
...alarm is sounding and all who can see further ahead than tomorrow (I believe nobody who cannot see at least fifty years ahead has a right to govern a nation) are worried. . . . The whole of urban Italy shows a birth deficit. Not only is there not equilibrium, but deaths exceed the births. We have reached a tragic phase of the phenomenon. The cradles of our cities are empty and the cemeteries growing...