Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contrast as a feat of news-gathering was the publication of income tax payments by the newspapers. The extreme example of efficiency in this respect was probably attained by The New York Times, At 9.30 one morning income tax collectors turned over to the press, books full of names, addresses, amounts, unarranged, unclassified. At each office in New York City, the Times had a battery of stenographers, each group supervised by a reporter. All New York City tax payments of $500 or more were copied. In addition the telegraph wires brought in all tax payments of more than...
...Norfolks, long pants and cutaways of this concern, have ever beheld, in the flesh, either Mr. Rogers or Mr. Peet, few are without their conception of the personal appearance of these able outfitters. They envision Rogers as a spindling little man, whose pathetic shanks, shrunken torso and desiccated arms, contrast oddly with the twinkling zest of his round impish face, the shrewd pucker of his mobile mouth; they picture Peet as his twin, in all respects identical. For such are the eloquent small figures that have long capered in the advertising columns of theatre programs and daily newspapers, accompanied...
...Wanderer. This American spectacle appeared for its first week in crude contrast to Siegfried. This picture is the one with which Famous Players hoped to repeat the success of The Ten Commandments. It is in the same mood-Bible teaching all tangled up with a modern allegory. But it somehow seems hollow, even beside that garish venture. The story of the Prodigal Son is the specific parable employed. The characters are chiefly impersonated by William Collier Jr. and Greta Nissen. There is plenty of sex and a practically uninterrupted killing of the fatted calf. The Wanderer will probably be popular...
...sermon was by the Bishop of Winchester. His text, Matthew 4:17, declared the "imminence of the Kingdom of God." His theme etched a contrast between old church councils which debated dogma and this conference which concerned itself with the practical good which Christianity should attempt to achieve in the world today; his crescendo, "the sovereignty of Jesus in everything pertaining to human affairs." The Patriarch of Alexandria uttered the benediction...
After the final curtain fell on the first performance, Miss Pinchot and Lady Diana were called out again and again. Miss Pinchot, a slender, vigorous nun, was a rare contrast to the stolid Teutonic actress Sari Fedak, whose interpretation is more familiar to European audiences...