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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tobacco advertisers felt that, though every one knew women were smoking, to allow a woman in the unholy precincts of a cigaret advertisement would be to affront U. S. womanhood. But tobacco competition grew hot. One by one the cigaret-makers began introducing women in their advertisements. At first it was just a woman's arm and hand holding a cigaret (Marlboro). Then it was women present, though not smoking, at smoking bouts. When a Chesterfield advertisement appeared in which an entrancing female was made to say, "Blow some my way," it seemed the peak in risque outspokenness...
...American Caravan, first appearing in 1927, put out by its present board of editors and Critic Van Wyck Brooks, aimed to provide a "literary ferment" by publishing samples of the more advanced American literature, which otherwise readers of the Red Book might never know existed. The scheme took. The American Caravan has become an annual fixture. Among its contributors have been: Eugene O'Neill, Ernest Hemingway, Evelyn Scott, Morley Callaghan, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Paul Green. Authors Evelyn Scott and Paul Green are again represented in the present edition...
Dime novels were inaugurated by Manhattan Publishers Erastus & Irwin Beadle who sold the first five million between 1860-64. Who dared say that lordly persons were above them? There was Senator Zachariah Chandler of Michigan who emphatically admitted that Beadle's Oonomoo the Huron fascinated him. The man who disliked it, opined the Senator, was unfit to live. In the Civil War the same novels did much to incite soldiers on both sides to deeds of astonishing gallantry. There were, indeed, four phases of the dime novel and its follower, the Nickel Library: 1) innocent stories of the American...
...soccer team closed a poor season Saturday morning by losing to Yale-Freshmen, 2 to 0. The Crimson first year men, although they had shown a better record than their opponents, were unable to tally at all, and finished with a record of three wins and four losses...
...Average distance of punts (yards) 37 32 Total distance of rushes (yards) 176 139 Average distance of rushes (yards) 3.25 2.6 Attempted passes 9 12 Completed passes 5 5 Grounded passes 2 7 Passes intercepted by 0 2 Distance gained on passes 66 67 Number of plays 81 77 First downs 8 8 Runbacks of all kicks (yards) 86 102 Penalties (yards...