Word: worldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan dailies?Times, Herald Tribune, World, Sun?with many a news-sending device at their command, last week had not yet signified intent to subscribe nor had the big news services, Associated Press, United Press...
This book's 823 pages, published last fortnight simultaneously in four languages in Budapest, Berlin, Rome, Lcndon and New York, contain all of Ferenc Alomar's 20 plays. Written in Hungary, most of them have been, are being, played the world over. Some resumes...
...goes Janos, model man. At the last moment the one good act he does makes the machine explode. The act: forgiveness of the charming sin-woman, Mima (in the U. S., Lenore Ulric). Says Molnar: "The machine itself is nothing more than a visible combination of our machine world and the psychological grind...
...than pedantic Shaw when later generations take an accounting. Like Shaw, like any playwright with broad genius, Molnar is interested in and can handle all manner of people?slaveys, socialites, policemen, princes?not for what they stand for but as kinds of people underneath. For the proud of this world he has a pathos of precision, for the humble, a tender irony, ridicule softened by tears. His many-mooded plays abound in what actors call "fat parts"?character-full roles, with unique "business...
Extent of the European market for U. S. cars is suggested by the fact that of a world registration of 31,778,203 motor cars, 24,493,124 are in U. S. territory. There is already approximately one U. S. motor car for every U. S. family. Comparatively speaking, the world market is a pedestrian paradise. Furthermore, out of a 1928 world production of 5.198,167 cars, the U. S. produced 4.358,748, or almost 85%. Thus the rest of the world has the capacity to absorb many more cars and the U. S. has the capacity to make them...