Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kind of conversational sword play between U.S. Foreign Correspondent Percy Winner and an Italian journalist named Dario Duvolti rustles throughout this urban study of a European Fascist intellectual. When Winner first met Dario in 1925 he was reminded of Count Keyserling's remark about the women of Italy-that as young girls they dream of being grandmothers. Dario, brilliant and ambitious, dreamt of being an ambassador, and was but a few rungs from the top of Mussolini's ladder when it fell in 1943. Unlike most of the climbers, however, he was not hurt. A daring young...
...Daylight Saving Time was back, mostly in the urban East-many rural towns and 32 whole states in the South and West still refused to have any truck with...
...story revolves around a rural young lady who, because of urban finances, takes a job as a maid in the home of a young congressman and his politically wise mother. Some sixty minutes, a Swedish massage and numerous political shcunnanigans later, the former domestic finds herself running in a congressional race against the man supported by her former employers. To complicate matters further, an indiscretion committed by the aspiring congress-woman in the first reel and long since forgotten by everyone, including the audience, comes back to plague her campaign...
Thus they walked beyond the town. "A small stone quarry, deserted and bleak, lay quite near to a still completely urban house. . . . Now they loosened their hold of K., who stood waiting dumbly, took oft their top hats and wiped the sweat from their brows with pocket handkerchiefs, meanwhile surveying the quarry. The moon shone down with that simplicity and serenity which no other light possesses...
...cities have changed even more. For the first time in Texas history, urban population had become bigger than the rural. Biggest change-and growth-is in Houston, smack in the middle of the chemical wave that has swamped the whole Gulf Coast. Before the war, greater Houston was already the crowded center of oilfields and refineries. War brought it 20% of the nation's synthetic-rubber plants and 145 major chemical plants. Postwar expansion completed the jam, with scores of new installations. Now, the skeletons of new skyscrapers fill the skyline...