Word: illuminati
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Universe, this way-ward spoke will continue its mad career along the primrose path, if not with the open sanction, at least with the tacit consent of its own particular Cato. The tradition of culture and individuality established half a century ago by the Brattle Street illuminati has been saved certainly for the present and possibly even for future generations. Io Saturnalia...
...some years great groups of the illuminati have been proclaiming Charles S. Chaplin an artist. Yet our good old uncles and funny old aunts, who really knew about custard pies, demurred. They said that when one comedian dropped a lighted cigar down another comedian's trousers it was not art. And for their part they couldn't see anything funny in one man hitting another in the seat of what they termed "pants." In their day the seat of the, pardon us, trousers was a disciplinary objective; they refused, to admit the right of Charles Chaplin to make...