Word: massed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That there might be some truth in this statement, as shown by the comparatively simple mass-forms of "modern architecture", is not to be denied. However in view of the present day tendency to gaud and show, this is too early a time to even hint at returning sanity. The display complex, engendered to a large degree by the war and the enormous profits it brought with it, is too much with us. flashy things are still far too popular in almost every time in which there can be said to be 'style". Movie palaces of lavishness not excelled...
...backs of barns, signboards and fence-rails peddle for him. "Beecham's Pills,"* the newspapers and country sides of England, eventually of the world (including Greenland), echoed and re-echoed. Sir Joseph died the third richest man in England ($140,000,000) in 1916, having virtually invented mass advertising-at least been its record utilizer. The genius that struck off those advertisements which some called vulgar, others "priceless," such as- Hark! the herald angels sing Beecham's pills are just the thing. Peace on earth and mercy mild, Two for a man and one for a child -passed...
...matter where Dr. William Henry Welch of Johns Hopkins goes he finds friends to greet him with that affectionate regard which able men yield to an able, modest confrere. It may be at New Haven, Manhattan, Strassburg, Leipzig, Breslau, Berlin, where he has studied; or at Philadelphia, Cleveland, Cambridge, (Mass.) , Cambridge (Eng.), Princeton, Chicago, Washington or elsewhere, where he has received honorary degrees; in the U. S., England, Scotland, Austria, Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, where he belongs to learned societies; or Japan...
Died. Jason Franklin Chase, 54, internationally famed Cerberus of public morals, 19 years Secretary of the New England Watch and Ward Society; in West Roxbury, Mass., of pneumonia and shock. His field of supervision included narcotics, prostitution, gambling, literature. His status was both private and official. Member of the Massachusetts Committee on Sex Publications, he was four times appointed by President Wilson delegate to the International Purity Federation...
...There is an enormous mass of minute and curious information in this book, collected from pretty nearly every imaginable source. The most cursory examination of it provokes admiration of the indefatigable industry displayed in the compilation and arrangement of it."--J. Rankin Towse in the New York Evening Post...