Word: cosmopolitans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author, Michael Arlen (Dikran Kouyoumdjian), an Armenian born in a Bulgarian village, lives in London and on the Riviera. He is married (since 1928) to the beautiful Italo-U. S.-Grecian Countess Atalanta Mercati. Once a struggling writer in London, at 35 Michael Arlen's struggles are over. Smooth, cosmopolitan, he is thus described by a warm friend: "His ties and socks are a gracefully subdued symphony. His barber is the best in town. . . . His Rolls-Royce is at least six inches longer than any other Rolls-Royce. With evening dress he wears a gardenia, one white pearl...
Editor Ray Long of Hearst's International-Cosmopolitan magazine gave a dinner at the Metropolitan Club in Manhattan for Boris Pilnyak, visiting Russian novelist (The Naked Year). Sinclair Lewis was to deliver the speech of welcome. But in response to Host Long's introduction Novelist Lewis drawled: "I am very happy to meet Mr. Pilnyak. But I do not care to speak in the presence of one man who has plagiarized 3,000 words from my wife's book on Russia. Nor do I care to talk before two sage critics who have lamented the action of the Nobel committee...
...find out precisely what Congress thinks about Prohibition, as distinguished from what it does, became the journalistic assignment of William H. Crawford, free lance. Selecting at random 200 Senators and Congressmen, half Republican, half Democratic, he wormed out of each in confidence his "real senti-ments." In the April Cosmopolitan ap- peared last week the results (but with no names mentioned) of Mr. Crawford's Prohibition poll. Major findings...
...keeping with the cosmopolitan character of the Law School in general, the new officers represent institutions from diverse sections of the country, Gugenhime being a graduate of Leland Stanford, Ely of Williams, Johnson of Carroll College, Wisconsin and Levine of Yale...
...general purpose--what Harvard stands for in their minds. Columbia attracts men who are interested more in some particular thing. I think the traditions of Harvard, its age, and past history are very powerful influences in drawing students from all over the country. Columbia attracts a somewhat more cosmopolitan body and is therefore somewhat less homogeneous." He added that much of this difference was due to the relative sizes of the two schools' undergraduate bodies...