Word: cosmopolitans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Starlight Roof Garden of the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan one night last week a cosmopolitan group of well-groomed gentlemen and their ladies sat down for a long and pleasant dinner. No ordinary meal was this. Eleven years ago to the very night Lucius Boomer played host to the same group in his old Waldorf-Astoria down on 34th Street. Now in his bigger & better Waldorf on Park Avenue Mr. Boomer was again entertaining the officers and executive committee of the International Hotel Alliance...
...apparent that the present system of competition does not offer the most effective and impartial method of selection. Yet it must be borne in mind that the advantages of three years of study in a foreign land are many. A man develops a cosmopolitan culture, finds his intellectual, literary, and historical background broadening, his range of comprehension enlarging. Oxford itself, with its quiet and scholarly background offers the student everything his intellectual largeness is capable of absorbing...
...mind damn them. That is foolish. No form of art is produced unless there is a demand for it and if newspapers and magazines did not publish short stories they would not be written." All but two of the stories in East and West were published in the Cosmopolitan Magazine, whose editor, Ray Long, sometimes cut them to fit but never otherwise edited them...
...into a rabbit jacket before the trip was over, shipped Scamper home to the White House. Such is the biography of Scamper, as related for children by President Roosevelt's only daughter. For the onetime assistant editor (Babies: Just Babies). broadcaster (Best & Co.), and magazine contributor (Liberty and Cosmopolitan), the White House and its extroverted occupants have provided a lively background for her yarn. Easy to identify are Mrs. Ball's children Anna Eleanor ("Sistie") and Curtis ("Buzzie") who show a mute and dazzled Scamper the White House foyer, the State dining room, the grand stairway, the Presidential...
...more things change the more they become the same," winked a complacent War Office official pointing out that his new chief recently wrote the preface to the novel provocatively describing a war between Japan and Soviet Russia.* But despite his militancy War Minister Hayashi is rated more cosmopolitan than General Araki. Several times he has represented Japan in Geneva, gained a broader world view. On taking office he had nothing to say to correspondents, beyond admitting that the Japanese Who's Who is correct in listing his recreation as "the collecting of swords...