Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...content with these five columns or more of smugness, you must print a lewd picture on page 40. Actress West, a nasty creature at best, is pictured with her dress slipping down...
...encouraged them to harry the publishers to such good effect that soon the first impression was to be had only by the wealthy with good booklegging connections. The present adaptation seems desinged for the less affluent who must be satisfied with less than one half of one percent crotic content...
...however, in the general tenor of their minds. For no gathering of like size preserves the geniality of a football crowd, immediately let out of the stadium. Surprisingly enough there is comparatively little boisterousness. There is a composure which is almost marked enough to be termed bovine; there is content. The tramp of tens of thousands of shuffling feet, the clink of colas in the Salvation Army blanket, the dolorous wheeze of the organ man, the shouts of the game extras, the smell of popcorn and frankfurters--these are what the artist designates as local color. And the fact that...
...Stadium or Bowl. A game, by all the word implies, includes elements of chance and presupposes the desire to win. Games are played to the won, which has nothing at all to do with the effect of victory or defeat. After the game the competition is over, and the content for superiority, not the goal, is its reward. Over a long period of years Harvard and Yale have engaged in athletic competition. In that time the two universities have engaged in a rivalry intense and fierce and withal the most logical because it is between friends and equals. Such...
This art museum is one of Toledo's dearest prides. The citizens, not content with stark commercialism, determined to bring to their city all the concentrated beauty that a staggering sum of money could buy. It stands today one of the finest public collections in the western world. It was unquestionably the influence of this museum that prompted Lasalle & Koch to engage Artist Covey as their window-dresser. Nor did they engage him to help sell shoes and pots and furniture. Not one item of their stock was to be placed in their windows during the twelve days the pictures...