Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...natural that Artist Arno should find his niche in an urbane journal of fripperies and follies. Such a journal is the weekly New Yorker which, since its inception four years ago, has contained his work. The New Yorker has more to say about polo and modistes than about multilateral treaties. It is a chic Baedecker for those who will be chic. It was in this magazine that Artist Arno exploited-his famed Whoops Sisters, a pair of blithe Victorian crones who swept with muffs and bonnets about the city, never had their shoes off while the fleet was in, stood...
...America, an Epic Rhapsody in Three Parts", written by Ernest Block is the feature number of the evening. This symphony won the prize of $3000 offered three years ago by the weekly journal. Musical America, for an orchestral piece of symphonic dimensions, that was to be "a really representative work, one which will be to American music what the standard German, French, and Russian works for orchestra are to the music of their countries...
Among leading English physicians the opinion was frequently heard last week that had His Majesty been stricken even five years ago by so virulent an infection he would have died within ten days. The authoritative British Medical Journal told in simple, vivid language of the new means used to strengthen and increase the number of white corpuscles in the blood royal: "The infection belongs to a type with which clinicians have become much better acquainted in the last ten years. . . . There is no set duration and no crisis. . . . There are phases or chapters on infection . . . and . . . the temperature settles slowly...
...simple process of keeping a reminiscent journal for six months, "that c'toonist" has told his neighbors, who for him include all mankind, how life has been with him; whom he has known, what he has seen, read, heard, thought...
...October, his bill would have been $3,143.00. In. November he could have sold them for $4,533.50, realizing an average profit of about $75 a share. Actually, much paper profit was turned into cash on the market's only day of weakness (Wednesday). The Wall Street Journal reported that the Brothers Fisher sold their 300,000-share holdings of Radio. Their investment cannot have netted them less than $30,000,000, may have made...