Word: fashionableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whence, then, do these stories come? Why, if there is no duck, is a duck thus strikingly exploited? Who is the duck's creator? A press agent is the gentleman who keeps The Stupidities before the public. It is his business to ferret out facts about the company, fashion them into entertaining if reading, hawk them among the dramatic editors. When the facts run dry he "plants" a story. His steadfast purpose is to keep The Stupidities in the headlines. If he is successful, the patient public parts with the aforesaid $4.40 and the production thus makes money. Though...
...thought of putting on extra help for the wholesale cloak checking. Between these two sources of delay only a few hundred people got into the auditorium. The crowd grew restive, as excitable Italian crowds will. Then two young soldiers straight from the provinces searched a beautiful lady in such fashion that she and her escort grew furious. A fight started, and the crowd got more excited. At this critical moment Toscannini, who pays attention to nothing save his orchestra score, walked down in front of the orchestra, raised his baton, and began the first notes of Verdi's Otello. Immediately...
...athletes faced the Tiger on its home track, and carried off a victory in brilliant fashion by a 76 2-3 to 58 1-3 count. Two weeks later, however, the Princeton team invaded the Stadium and overwhelmed the Crimson track men in a meet featured by many record performances, the final score standing 85 1-2 to 49 1-2. The following week-end, many University athletes competed in the intercollegiate contests in Philadelphia, but were able to collect only six points for eleventh place. Yale, however, amassed a total of 23, and was beaten for the title only...
POLLY PREFERRED?A pretty face (on Genevieve Tobin) and Paris gowns (on the rest of Miss Tobin) carry a virtuous and unsuccessful chorine from the Automat to Fashion Row ? from Fashion Row to Fame (Hollywood variety...
...saying that it was the work of Satan and that Satan was in it. In more recent years mechanical reproductions of the human throat have been attempted, but some of the vowel sounds could not be made to sound truly. For a long time organ manufacturers have tried to fashion a genuine " vox humana," a mechanical singing voice. It is said that the new device will bring the ideal of speaking dolls...