Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that "Bolshevism is only super-Capitalism of a State carried to the most ferocious extreme. . . . The time has come to put an end to it!" He postulated further: "If there is a country where concrete, real and substantial Democracy has been realized, this country is Italy of the Fascist era...
...Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House last week, to begin a tour which will take it to every one of the United States, was the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe. For the first time in the U. S. the Monte Carlo dancers presented the great shocker of the great Diaghilev era: L'Après-midi d'un faune, designed and danced by Vaslav Nijinsky not long before he became so addlebrained that he was interned in a Swiss sanatorium. Last week handsome David Lichine impersonated the spotted faun, gyrating insidiously, blatantly suggesting, as did his predecessor, the throes...
...never more devastatingly exploded, for it proved as impotent and soiled as the man around whom it hovered. Besides the end of the Hearst hypothesis, the Literary Digest and Farm Journal polls went into the discard, hurled from their crowing perches by the enormity of their failure. Their era is over, their place to be taken, perhaps, by Dr. Gallup and his attendant prophets...
...until 1934 the employer groups dominated the hiring halls, taking on men and firing them with the recklessness of a Bourbon era. But the two year agreements then adopted gave the unions a half share in controlling the halls, as well as dealing with the need for shorter working hours on shipboard and recognizing the union leaders as the official voice of labor. When the contracts expired, the shipping companies sought to rid them selves of union interference and return to the old "free for all" system. And since neither side has good temper enough to arbitrate, with Secretary Perkins...
...escape" literature, and the Record provides opportunities for escape rivalled only by the most remarkable of lobster newburgh nightmares. Here in truth is the safety valve on life for those who live out their drab existances for from the palaces of wealth and pleasure of a now bygone era...