Word: cornucopias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus ran the story which J. P. McEvoy energized with Broadway chatter in his novel Show Girl (1928). And thus runs the plot of the musical show which Producer Ziegfeld, as Writer McEvoy had planned, has energized with girls, Gershwin tunes, and spillings from the largest cornucopia of talent in the girl-show business...
...true that the coughing of the aerial static will be silent as the voice of the host at Hollis 15 travels through the night. Absurd it certainly is to place credence in the rumor that a radio firm has named its newest loudspeaking horn the Cornucopia. Irrelevancies aside, Professor Copeland, whether in Sever 11, the Union, or vibrating the crisp winter air above a million houses is still Copey...
...live within himself. He must paint a dismal background against which the present will seem bright. So that he can say: "Those boys of a drab and dirty day, grown mature, have performed a miracle . . . modern civilization ... a great agricultural empire ... a rich industrial commonwealth . . . out of the bottomless cornucopia of Providence," etc., etc. He accuses men his age of overmuch pride in their material achievements and sentimentality over their oldtime virtues. But then he turns around to ballyhoo Progress harder than anyone and to give his contemporaries credit for planting in Modern Youth a virtue greater than ever. This...
Philadelphia, the Sesquicentennial Exposition City, last week was the recipient of priceless largesses. This time, from the art-crammed Spanish-Citadel cornucopia, flowed some sixty masterpieces of the Spanish Renaissance; Velasquezes; Goyas; Murillos; Fortunys; Goya tapestries; modern paintings (many Sorollas) ; old wrought-iron; ceramics; gossamer Spanish mantillas; delicate rapiers; daggers; rugs; Renaissance furniture...