Word: cosmopolitanization
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...preferred": American, Click, Collier's, Coronet, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Liberty, LIFE, Look, National Geographic, Newsweek, New Yorker, Omnibook, Pic, Reader's Digest, Redbook, Saturday Evening Post, TIME...
...real Edvard Grieg was more musical than comic. But Song of Norway's librettists depict the gentle, gnomish composer as a heroic genius whose fidelity to Norwegian folksong and his Norwegian wife is threatened by the wiles of an Italian countess named Louisa Giovanni. She represents the cosmopolitan musical culture of sophisticated Europe. Grieg, though tempted, sticks to Norway, and composes his greatest work, the Piano Concerto in A Minor. So ingratiating are the familiar, lyrical Grieg melodies in which this flimsy plot is dressed that last week three Hollywood studios were bidding for movie rights and Producer Lester...
...sport almost untouched by the war is Harlem's colored cricket. Last week the slim, supple bowlers and batsmen of the two big leagues, the New York and the Cosmopolitan, were out for spring practice in the vast green reaches of Van Cortlandt Park...
Most of the players and onlookers are West Indians. There are ten eleven-man teams in the New York League, six in the Cosmopolitan. After a summer's play in Van Cortlandt Park, a "world series" is held between the leagues in the Randalls Island Stadium...
...York-Cosmopolitan cricket has something of the quietly gala atmosphere of matches at Lord's in London. The teams (bearing such names as Grenada, Windsor, Trinidad) disport their flannels, blazers and visored beanies against a background of picture hats and parasols. The crowd's applause almost never rises above a musical murmur. Between innings, there is a tea interval...