Word: 1900s
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Million Dollar Mermaid (MGM) is a splashy musical that casts Cinemermaid Esther Williams as Annette Kellerman, the foremost amphibian attraction of the early 1900s. The picture takes Annette, who is described as "half woman and half fish," from Sydney, Australia to London, where she makes a much publicized 26-mile swim down the Thames; then to the New York Hippodrome, where she is billed as a diving Venus in tank extravaganzas; and finally to Hollywood, where she is badly injured during the filming of an underwater picture. For romance, there is a conventional (and fictional) triangle involving the Hippodrome...
...textbooks, McGuffey presented an ambitious package: reading material for children of all ages, a fine anthology of old favorites, and a stern, explicit code of morals. Before they finally faded from U.S. schools in the early 1900s, the six Eclectic Readers and the Eclectic Spelling Book (edited by Brother Alexander McGuffey) sold some 130 million copies, probably had more influence on U.S. literary tastes and moral standards than any other book except the Bible...
...liner Queen Mary on the run between Ambrose Lightship and Bishop Rock on the southwest coast of England. But merely nibbling an hour or so off the record would mean little. Ships like the Lusitania and the old Mauretania had guaranteed a 4½day crossing in the early 1900s. The Normandie and the two British Queens had cut it to four days in the 1930s. If she was worth the toil, treasure and time it had taken to build her, the United States had to come significantly closer to airline time...
Teacher Woodring is sure that teachers as a group are no more inclined to the left than the members of any other profession. As for the three Rs, he argues, "we must bear in mind that [in the early 1900s] high-school students were a selected group who presumably averaged higher in ability and in literacy of background than the more inclusive group of today . . ." The question of values is the hardest for any teacher to answer. "It was certainly not the intention of Dewey to eliminate values from the schools," says Woodring. But "if the children are being allowed...
Nebraska-born Wright Morris does more than dedicate his new novel to Sherwood Anderson: in an almost filial gesture, he consciously patterns his story on Anderson's work. The locale of The Works of Love is Anderson's sleepy Midwest of the 1900s. Its style is an echo of Anderson's tone of baffled affection. And it focuses on an inarticulate man, Will Jennings Brady, who mistakenly tries to become a go-getter...