Word: cosmopolitan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boston claims the distinction of being the most musical city in the U. S., but its recent operatic ventures have done little to support the claim. Last spring a so-called National Opera Company came into existence there, died in a week. Last month a Cosmopolitan Opera Company closed its run abruptly because singers refused to sing unpaid...
...Cosmopolitan and divided as Harvard men may be, they manage to come together on one or two scattered points. And while views of the House Plan, the War Memorial, and the Lampoon may be colored by many different shades of Crimson, there is always a rosy halo about the neighborhood of Hollis...
Contrasted with Vance and his native thirst for literature are Halo and Lewis Tarrant, products of the civilized and cosmopolitan world which Mrs. Wharton knows and likes the best. But in this story she has given her favorites the meagerer parts. Vance's honest bluntness is thrown into even bolder relief by their futile sophistication, their self-deluding cleverness...
...dime novel and its follower, the Nickel Library: 1) innocent stories of the American Revolution and early Indian warfare in the East; 2) similar tales of the great plains and the pioneer West; 3) strenuous stories of New York detectives such as Old Cap Collier and Old Sleuth, of cosmopolitan boys like Jack Harkaway, or rovers like Deadwood Dick; 4) respectable stories of righteous messenger boys, of Nick Carter, Diamond Dick, Jesse James and Yale's hyper-athlete Frank Merriwell...
...natural to attend anything popular-priced rather hesitantly, especially when the epithet is applied to no refined an object as the opera, but the work of the Cosmopolitan Opera Company, at the Arlington for two weeks, leaves absolutely no basis for this fear. A small theater and stage, simple settings, singers not yet widely known--these might be handicaps for such an organization; instead they are transformed into positive aids. The grandiose atmosphere that surrounds the Chicago Company's midwinter performances is lacking; in its place is an enthusiastic group of singers and a fully appreciative audience...