Word: urbanities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with religious prejudice, the wet issue, and the fragrant memories of Tammany Hall and yet manages to remain politically available despite these handicaps, each one of which is theoretically sufficient to destroy him--a man of experience, wit, city manners and sophistication, who typifies the challenge of a restless urban civilization to the long-continued domination of a thousand Main Streets: this is the man who now bids for the nomination of a party whose strength, ironically enough, lies chiefly in the old aristocracy of the Solid South...
...seals for unsound and unscientific purposes. This income has totaled $47,500,000 between 1907 and 1927. Dr. Fishberg's point was that the money was used largely to educate the public to prevent tuberculous infection. But it is well known that 90% of the U. S. urban pop- ulation carry tubercle bacilli, which are often immunizing factors...
...national paper currency, apt to be presented, at its present value of 25 francs to the dollar; 2) So great is the reviving confidence of French peasants in securities payable in francs that they are now buying and stuffing them into stockings at such a rate that urban French capitalists are left with a legitimate surplus of capital for investment abroad. A further prop to French financial stability was set up, last week, by the lifting of the U. S. State Department's ban of more than three years standing against flotation on U. S. capital of French industrial...
...performance provoked discussion. The musty old sets had been discarded for new ones by Joseph Urban. Edward Johnson was a handsome Don Jose. Lawrence Tibbett was a swaggering Toreador. Editha Fleischer was a wistful Micaela...
...story is not only of the sea, but also of the urban life of Ireland and the struggle of a strong dynamic man, quite out of place in his natural surroundings. One feels certain that Robert Dun woody is destined for the sea, and yet, after serving his desires for several years, he returns to marry and settle down. It is very evident that he is most unhappy in his new surroundings, and in dealing with the outcome of this unfortunate crisis, Mr. Ervine has built up an exceedingly strong climax...