Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Archbishop Urban John Vehr of Denver, ceremonially draped with a pallium* brought from Rome by Samuel Alphonsus Cardinal Stritch, managed to get through the ceremony with a nose that had been through a chilling experience. Playing host to visiting bishops the night before, the Archbishop had tripped, taken a nose dive. Physicians insisted on keeping the archiepiscopal neb in an ice pack all night...
...their parents' homes before the war. In 1940 there were about 29 million non-farm families in the U.S. At the end of this year it is estimated that there will be about 35 million. . . . The war brought a resumption of the historic American movement from rural to urban areas...
Officials did not have far to look for the reasons behind the increased emigration: 1) relaxation of the wartime Canadian law requiring a labor permit to leave the country; 2) easing of exchange restrictions on taking money out of Canada; 3) increased urban unemployment in the Dominion; 4) continuation of rigid Dominion wage controls, and higher prevailing pay scales south of the border...
...from those laugh-a-minute antecedents in the tradition of the zany famille and the trespasser on the hearth. Yet William Roos' adaptation of the Bollamy Partridge novel is bound to satisfy most of those who are willing to go along with a fairly original version of the old urban-rural conflict, despite the gaping holes left in the comic continuity by the playwright and director Ezra Stone, who will be remembered as Henry Aldrich in real life...
...adult school, short of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, but far above the dreary, text-bound trade schools which pass for adult education in most U.S. cities. Its faculty is heavily loaded with crack refugee professors from Europe. It keeps school in a modernistic, seven-story, Joseph Urban-designed building in Greenwich Village, now has 5,700 pupils...