Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United States more people now live in what may be called urban areas than in the rural regions. This was not true until the 1920's, Professor Holcombe is concerned with what effect this will have upon American political parties, which have previously based their strategy upon sectional not class interests. It will mean a change from rustic to urbane politics (as he very charmingly puts...
Considered as a history of stage design the show had a few glaring omissions. There was no example of the work of the late Joseph Urban, whose electric blue backdrops for the early Follies brought the first stirrings of good taste to U. S. musicomedies. In the antique section of the show there were neither settings nor costumes of the important commedia dell' arte. Most important of all there were no examples of the whole school of late 19th Century realism that reached its height in the spectacular Drury Lane melodramas in which frail heroines were pursued through burning...
...cases of acute appendicitis died 20 years ago. One out of ten cases of acute appendicitis died last year. The failure of advancing surgery to re duce this mortality rate prompted Dr. Urban Maes, able New Orleans appendectomist. chief of the department of surgery of Louisiana State University Medical Center, to search for explanations. His conclusions he last week presented in the American Journal of Sur gery*: "Categorically speaking, the mortality in appendicitis is not usually the mortality of appendicitis itself; it is usually the mortality of unwise treatment, the mortality of delay, and the mortality of the complications that...
Tuesday she rode horseback in the morning, consulted with representatives of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration about establishing urban clubs for single unemployed women to correspond to the CCC's winter encampments. After lunch she received diplomatic wives whom she had not yet met: Mmes Simopoulos (Greece), May (Belgium). Sze (China), de Bianchi (Portugal). Later there were 175 assorted tea guests. At midnight she entrained for Manhattan...
Worcester: Campbell, g.; Urban, l.f.b.; Bounakes, r.f.b.; Bealey, l.h.b.; Francis, c.h.b.; Hayes, Pino, r.h.b.; T. Avian, l.o.f.; Davey, l.i.f.; J. Arian, c.f.; Pevault, r.i.f.; Brown, Dorsey, r.o.f...