Word: eras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when ready, Gridley." For seven days, the U. S. waited for authentic news of this man's victory. For 16 months, the U. S. waited for its idol to come home and receive in person his righteous adulation. Some say that his welcome was the beginning of the spectacle era in the U. S.a wood and plaster triumphal arch in Manhattan (reputed to be "a labor of love"), massed flag waving and horn blowing, loving cups, a sword of honor from President McKinley, so much handshaking that the idol's hand became painfully swollen...
Repertory is, its belittlers will say, merely a glorified title for the "stock company" which flourished in full bloom in the pre-cinema era. Repertory is also, however, a glorified stock, for the plays presented under the Le Gallienne regime and in other similar organizations are produced with an eye which although not totally oblivious of commercial values considered the artistic taste of the public to be of a respectably high average...
...just published most illuminating, if somewhat bloodcurdling memoirs.* He proceeds from his childhood (circa 1855) when a neighboring Count Visapur went unrestrained although he used to decorate his garden with pedestals on which stood all day statues improvised out of living serfs, stripped and painted white. In that era, Baron Wrangel's Aunt Jeanne would say, if anyone asked her the time, "Thank God, I have never been compelled to learn that!" and would display her watch to a serf who would announce the hour...
...only is it to be deplored from that point of view, however, but the habit is an annoying one to the student body itself. The danger of an artificial rain shower is one which evokes signs of temper rather than of risibility. As humor it dates from the Mesozoic era, or at best from the Post-Pliocene. Although we approve of the antiquarian interest displayed, we hardly feel that the average passerby appreciates it. --Columbia Spectator...
John McCormick, who has been managing this campaign, has stated that the contest has met with as great a success as he had hoped and that this new innovation may mark a new era in the history of moving pictures...