From James M. Cain (1892-1977), author of the hard-boiled novels The Postman Always Rings Twice, and Double Indemnity.
"I never feel that a city is really in the Big Time unless it has soap boxers damning the government in the parks, and parades that occasionally result in cracked heads. Why I regard such things as cosmopolitan I don't know, but I do."
From Paradise, 1933
