Word: cosmopolitans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cosmopolitan Book Corporation has republished the essay, in book form. Now it is a compact little volume in large type, hardly any thicker than The Saturday Evening Post, about one-quarter the latter's size and retailing at just 15 times the latter's price. The book omits the two cartoons which accompanied the essay originally and lent point to its remarks about a quiet, hard-working, soft-spoken, pestered...
...Peter Whiffle, Carl Van Vechten was chiefly known as a cosmopolitan whose main interests were music and cats. Previous appearances in print include The Tiger in the House, Interpreters, Music and Bad Manners and the inimitable Peter Whiffle...
...wanting Jack's legal advice, accompanied by several involved plots. When the plots are all disentangled the band strikes up The Star Spangled Banner and everybody agrees that America is God's Only-Country. Sweet vanilla ice-cream for the unsophisticated! THE ALASKAN-James Oliver Curwood-Cosmopolitan ($2.00). Men are Men in Alaska and Women are Women. And when a Man meets A Woman, up in those Big Open Spaces where the Eskimo dogs chase the mackinaws around and around the aurora borealis, something Big and Virile and Gripping is bound to happen. It does. Scads...
...together this loose collection of individuals do exist--the Freshman "phalanxteries" and the annual smokers, for instance. But such means, without the heart for class unity, will always be mechanical and insufficient. Relatively less class unity during undergraduate days is the price Harvard pays for its position as a cosmopolitan college--an educational world in little...
...Manhattan with several of the bidders. The troubles-and they were to some extent anticipated-came from the small number of the bids and the inadequacy of the majority of them. It was disappointing to the Board that lines such as the International Mercantile Marine, Luckenbach, Moore and McCormack, Cosmopolitan, C. D. Mallory & Co., and the Barber Line did not make offers. The Board's ray of hope was that such offers as had been made would be improved by the bidders in the ensuing conferences...