Word: urbanities
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...business of luring in as many pocketsful of money as possible, there swims into her calculating ken the inevitable handsome youth - with whom she falls in love and to whose farm her comrades in crime depart in a body. Whereupon his grandmother proves that sharp wits are not all urban products. Miss Costello contributes another of her decorative and deft characterizations...
...than Pepper. He has a good bit of the church vote and also of the miner vote-important in Pennsylvania. The third is Congressman William S. Vare, boss of the Philadelphia machine, out and out Wet, who hopes to gain at least part of the miner vote and the urban vote by his Wetness. The possible permutations and combinations arising out of this triangle make the issue difficult to predict and full of weight. Either, Pepper or Vare can be counted on to support the Administration if elected. If Vare should be nominated, however, it is not unlikely that Pinchot...
Other speakers will be Professor Wilbur Urban, President of the American Philosophical Association, on "Undergraduate Values"; Professor Leon B. Richardson, author of "A Study of the Liberal College", on "Curriculum Reform"; and Lewis Fox, President of the National Student Federation of America, on "Relations between the Federation and the Collegiate Press...
...Democratic party in the Senate has three wings: the urban, wet, conservative East, the dry, conservative South, and the Progressive, dry, agrarian West. The tariff and prohibition, two issues which still bear in them the seeds of vigorous dissension, of partisanship and high political fury, will either' of them split this loose confederation...
...most significant issue is that of "rural" v. "urban" representation. Rural communities dominate Congress, but the shift of population is to urban centres. (In 1910, 54% of the people of the U.S. lived on farms or in little villages; in 1920, only 48%.) Rural Congressmen of both parties want no change, lest in the change the urban powers get control of the parties...