Word: crazes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pianist Harney, who had toured the West and Midwest long before he started the craze in Manhattan, launched a nation-wide school of ragtime composers, active during the early 1900s. Prominent followers included Lucky Roberts (Pork and Beans), Scott Joplin (Maple Leaf Rag), Northrup & Confare (Cannon Ball), George Botsford (Texas Steer Rag), and Earl K. Smith (Hot Ashes). Oldtimers who heard Harney do his stuff, recall that his playing sounded very much like that of Zez Confrey (Kitten on the Keys), a little like Fats Waller...
Probably the greatest effect of the present candid camera craze has been to make the general public picture-conscious, Frank R. Fraprie, editor of "American Photography," declared yesterday at his Boston office...
...course, Fraprie added, the present craze will not go on indefinitely, but it will not recede as noticeably as have preceding fads. The greater part of those now interested in photography commercially or as a hobby will continue...
...Hunting field accidents frequently lead to subsequent sterility. The spine is liable to become twisted when women ride sidesaddle. In badminton and tennis, it is very easy to produce an osteopathic lesion. A badly done swallow [U. S.: swan] dive may have similar results. Overindulgence in sports and the craze for speed are in a general way favorable to barrenness. . . . Quite frequently a patient consults an osteopath and complains of sciatica, and sometimes she prefers to keep her sciatica and remain sterile...
...died a violent death). With exclusively mental hospitals limited to two until 1825, mental defectives were auctioned off to farmers, exhibited in cages for a fee, peddled at night from town to town in the hope of losing them. Called incurable until about 1830, insanity then enjoyed a craze of "curability," claiming 90% effectiveness (one patient "recovered" 46 times, died in an asylum). A pessimistic reaction revived an old slogan, "Once insane, always insane...