Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Opening in the middle of April, First National Pictures will launch a campaign to secure for the screen those Grecian visages which to date have been obscured by the dust of the pursuit of knowledge. The fortunate youths will forthwith be shipped prepaid to Burbank, California where they will be tested thoroughly for eight weeks at $50 per week. Should the neophytes meet with the approbation and unqualified admiration of this branch of the cinema world, they will be reengaged on a scale of rapidly mounting salaries...
...shutting out all but the most gorgeous spellbinders-Sundays and Sankeys, Moodies and McPhersons. Book peddlers had to learn the mass technique that flowered in Elbert Hubbard, Nelson Doubleday, E. Haldeman-Julius. All that remain of itinerant America are the scurrying hired droves who still "drum" everything from coal dust to white space; the glib "representatives" whose backslaps, hotel snoring and smoking-car anecdotes constitute an unmelodioua ground-buzz in the U. S. chorus...
Then the news came out and Tonopah went crazy. Had a stranger from the East dropped into town that day he would have glanced around to find where the movie cameras were hidden. Clouds of alkali dust whirled through the streets after a shouting, cursing, hurrying flock of humanity that suddenly began streaming from nowhere out into the desert after the Hortons and young Traynor. Stumbling mules wrenched along in makeshift harness. Automobiles of every make, rusty and knocking, shiny and squeaky, dodged and swerved along the crowded track. Derby hats, caps, fedoras and sombreros rolled by. Slick city...
...saying that it straight-jackets the intelligence. What then becomes of the Tutorial System, of the Honors course, of Dr. Meiklejohn's college, all of which are in fundamental opposition to such a philosophy? There is no war here between political, or religious, or economic conservatism and radicalism. The dust raising activities of the Red Peril Chaser cannot obscure the issue. The choice is simple. Are the school and college to train educated men or obscurantists...
...iron crags, or within heaps of dust...