Word: wirth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Small, round-faced Dr. Louis Wirth, University of Chicago sociologist, declared that urbanism-the big city problem-enters into almost every major problem of modern society. "Our cultures are still many, but our civilization is one. The city is the symbol of that civilization. We will either master this ominously complicated entity or perish under...
...young couple spryly tripped out of Jake Wirth's. The gentleman looked at his watch, walked up to a man carrying a ladder and asked him where the theatre was. "I don't know: I don't know anything," he replied. Unfortunately there were no moving picture producers on Stuart Street or the unknown cherub-faced moron would have had a free trip to Hollywood, and an exetic office withing which he could fabricate better movies; the idea is not facetious. Any child would have been ingenious enough to have concocted a better movie than "The Mystery...
...meal worth the cating. Down near the market there is the restaurant which was an institutions of our fathers', Durgin's. A good trustworthy place. The Vagabond finds it, that satisfies the most lusty paunch. And after the evening's sportiveness he is wont to wander in to Jakie Wirth's to call out for a "seidel of light" with which to wash down rye bread and cheese. Those many who scan these lines may have already been to and disliked these places: they may go and dislike them, but there are many of both ilk who will concur with...
Including members from the company of Earl Carrol's "Sketch Book", "Death Takes a Holiday", and "Berkley Square" the guest list has such names on it as Irene Ahlberg, Violet and Melda Lovely, Dorothy Carroll, Grace Wirth, Laverne Barker, Helen Vincent, and Margolo Gillmore...
Prospects. In Berlin Vofwarts, organ of the largest German party (Social Democratic), declared "the Government could do nothing more stupid than to reject Herr Briand's proposal." Minister of Interior Dr. Josef Wirth, formerly Chancellor, promised that the Cabinet would examine the scheme "with an open mind...