Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when it gets the Eskimo craze, begins to eat seal blubber and wears its flannels twelve months in the year. Just now the Riffa have got us, and promise to keep us until they have exhausted the Spanish Shawl market and the Morroco Leather Trust. To meet the popular demand Lady Fair has been ground out, and now, on the eve of its New York production it is being given the third degree at the Shubert...
...convention of the American Association of Advertising Agencies in his only speech within the fortnight. Said he: "The pre-eminence of America in industry, which has constantly brought about a reduction of costs, has come very largely through mass production. Mass production is only possible where there is mass demand. Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising...
...factor in this demand for soft coal is the continuing British coal strike. Four million tons of U. S. coal have been going to Great Britain.* But equally important is the domestic fear of a strike. Because of this nervous demand employers of non-union miners are finding some trouble in getting sufficient labor. Thus last week the open shop Pittsburgh Coal Co., a Mellon family holding company, offered increased wages. Higher wage scales were posted at many another mine...
...exercise of this archaic mode of expression, the drama continued until some 50 years ago, when there came the craze for realism. This, in its demand for photographic reproduction of life and its problems, which later evolved into the social drama of Ibsen and Galsworthy, ousted the spiritual element in the drama, killed imaginative dramatic writing, and was all of a piece with the growing materialistic tendency of the latter quarter of the nineteenth and the early years of the twentieth century...
Three large rooms on the second floor of the Harvard Union Building are available for this purpose. There will be attractiveful furnished and equipped as soon as the demand for club tables is signified. Each table will accommodate twelve men and each student will have his regular seat reserved for him for all meals served...