Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...capacity of New Lecture Hall, according to Assistant Comptroller E. S. Emery, is 940. As it is doubtful that more than 150 delegates will be definitely pledged to any candidate, the victory of any one faction will depend largely upon its ability to bring a majority of the mass of unorganized voters into line. A well-organized group will be able to accomplish this where a much larger body with no plan of campaign would fail...
Died. Granville Stanley Hall, 78, descendant of Elder Brewster and John Alden, President Emeritus of Clark University, founder-editor of the American Journal of Psychology, in Worcester, Mass...
...trip to Europe seems to make many a man boozier than ever, it is interesting to see that Sir Auckland Geddes recently made the following remarks to a London audience: "I don't think the people of England recognize amid the mass of stories of violation of the prohibition laws of the United States how strong the feeling of the best minds of the best people of America is on the subject of prohibition. Given the American problem, given the American climate, I think that if I were an American I would be a prohibitionist...
...number of 250,000. "Yet," said a Moscow publisher, "the supply is far inferior to the demand. We could easily sell a million." A Moscow journal said: "We publish books and pamphlets about Marxism and our great revolution. We encourage young authors to interpret its spirit and inspire the masses. We even issue cheap editions of the Russian classics. But the public reads-what? -Tarzan." Explaining why O. Henry, H. G. Wells, Conan Doyle, Jack London and Upton Sinclair are more popular than Russian authors, the newspaper continued: "It is because old Russian literature is out of date...
DOWN THERE?J. K. Huysmans? A. & C. Boni ($2.50). A sizzling, sulphuric translation of La Bas?the uttermost in demonology. With its pseudo-scientific basis of historical fact, in the story of Bluebeard and the study of the cult of Satanism and the Black Mass, the book is bloodcurdling, grotesquely horrible, reminiscent of William Blake. But then, one does not expect an Elsie Dinsmore story inside of a blood-red cover spouting pitchforks and lurid tongues of flame. The startled Manhattan censors recently frowned upon...