Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Congratulations upon not surrendering to mediocrity, to mass-thinking. Your printed sentiments concerning Colonel Lindbergh's great achievement, his splendid personal qualities, were noble, and clearly expressed [TIME, May 23, 30; June 6, 20, 27]. You have paid your tribute. To publish his photograph, added to ten thousand others, would be merely banal...
...Stillwater, Mass., the Last Man's Club was holding its last dinner. There were really three Last Men-Peter Hall, 89; Charles Lockwood, 86; John Goff, 85. Sixty-six years ago they had marched off to the Civil War with Company B of the First Minnesota Regiment. Many soldiers of Company B fell at their first battle-Bull Run-many at Antietam, at Gettysburg, at other battles that are history to almost everyone today but are memories to the old men of the Last Man's Club. In 1886 there were only 34 Company B members surviving...
...Vienna, all was peaceful down the broad, leafy boulevards. But at the Central Cemetery, the Super-Reporter found a scene worthy of his typewriter. He mentally jotted down a neat phrase?"a mass burial for men and women who died in a mass movement"?and squared off to gather the scene's color and emotion...
...Holyoke, Mass., directors of the Lyman cotton works last week decided to cease business. The works have operated at Holyoke for 73 years and lately employed 1,050 persons, who will have difficulty in getting new work. News despatches reflected local consternation: "The news of the plan came as a blow to Holyoke...
...Millis, Mass., where Clicquot Club ginger ale is made, the famed Clicquot Club "Eskimos" sang, down by the railroad tracks, of their bubbling, tangy product. It was the 42nd anniversary of their company's founding. But more significant than that, the 40-car freight train that stood on the tracks where they sang was loaded with 400,000 bottles of Clicquot Club ginger...