Word: echos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francisco tongues wagged when word went out that Maria Jeritza would arrive next September with the Salome of Richard Strauss, dance there for the first time in the U. S. her version of the Seven Veils. The echo spread as far as Manhattan. Perhaps the Metropolitan would relent now, let Salome into her own repertoire. She is, according to Jeritza, not a bad girl, just a little wild. But the Metropolitan board, it seems, refuses to be convinced, stays now as it has been for the past 20 years, firmly anti-Salometic...
...buying of books, has the response been similarly passive. And the conditions which are responsible for this seeming apathy can hardly be regretted, for they are the vindication of scholastic independence. If the answer to the call of the Phillips Brooks House has been largely that of echo, it is not an echo engendered in the vast purlieus of an empty reading room: if the Harvard undergraduate is refusing to teach the youth of the slums, all that can be deplored is his selfishness in preferring to learn himself...
...first time since the war a New York Orchestra has been engaged to play at the Junior Dance. On the evening of March 2, Memorial Hall will echo to the harmonies supplied by Markels Society Orchestra...
Thus in two sentences the President of the United States was devastated, last week, by "Pertinax," unquestionably the leading political critic-journal list of France. "Pertinax," of course, is vivacious, supremely intelligent M. André Géraud, Foreign Editor of L'Echo de Paris, a newspaper widely esteemed in French military, financial and high clerical circles...
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. So bland and calm was the satire of Author Anita Loos' famed opus, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, that, when translated into cinematic dialect, it seemed probable that only a faint echo of its hilarity would remain. Such is not the case. Ruth Taylor as the very arch criminal, Lorelei Lee, is so coy, and cogently appealing that it becomes easy to believe in her conquest first of the vulgar but munificent Mr. Eisman, then of the wan but even more wealthy Henry Spoffard. Dorothy Shaw, the hard-boiled bantam brunette who assists the capricious avarice of Lorelei...