Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...change of Ministers in France is of less importance to the residents of Los Angeles than a change of grade on an important thoroughfare. We are vastly more concerned about the price of gasoline than about the exchange value of the French franc. The Colorado River runs across the front pages of our newspapers, and the Rhine across an inside page. The January sales of our big department stores are of more interest to our people than a sale of French bonds. A new movie star attracts more attention than a French victory or defeat in the Libyan or Sahara...
Last week Publisher Bernarr? Macfadden was haled to court. Superintendent John S. Sumner of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, represented that he had received complaints against the Graphic's front pages from people with children who could not help seeing newsstands. The Tombs Court issued a summons charging Publisher Macfadden and some underlings with violation of that clause of the penal code prohibiting literature "principally made up of criminal news, police reports, or pictures or stories of deeds of bloodshed, lust or crime...
...Facts of Life, such as cigarettes and harsh language fall violently on the timid souls of the gentlemen who are engineering the present day reforms. Crushed by the evident and inevitable, they rise in their might and throw off the onus and destroy it utterly, stifling it on the front pages of the tabloids, and all lest some spirit now tender and sweet as the violet become aware of these things and grow up into a cauliflower, or something else far removed from violets...
Scarcely a minute after the fall of the puck at the start of the game, Zarakov gave the spectators a hint of the way the balance would turn when he whirled in front of the Laval net, took a lightning pass from Tudor and caged the puck for the Crimson's first score. Halfway through the first period Captain Ellison dashed down the left lane and netted a powerful drive from an acute angle. A. Matte made the lone Canadian tally near the period's close on a duplicate of Ellison's feat...
...floor is equipped with soundless cork tiles. Other features are the chandeliers which have parchment shades, and the paintings set in the front of the room at the left. A blank, white wall at the back of the lecture stage is used for the screen...