Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bonds and checks across the country and across the ocean. Looking into the future, Mr. Sarnoff saw a time when mail would be sent by television. Another field of experiment is the talking moving picture. Sarnoff concluded his lecture by stressing the fact that the radio is essential to modern business...
...hound dogs, the Tennesseean Montagues and Capulets, and the revolving saw that yearns for the hero's throat. But along Catfish Row, in the negro tenement district of Charleston, murder, knife behind back, walks hand in hand with music. The very name of melodrama was derived of this union. Modern usage of the word had its birth in the musically accompanied plays of the mauve decade, when "Hearts and Flowers," various funeral marches, and "After the Ball" were softly breathed by violins below the stage during appropriate soliloquies. The blending of music and drama is something more than a device...
...their smaller rivals can have all the fun and none of the troubles. Campaign funds are too small to cause any fear of scandal, speeches can be made just as effectively no matter who the listeners, and there is always the hope that one of them may be a modern David and down the Goliaths...
...last there is an end to adversity, and they all live happily ever afterward-even Mrs. Trevelyan, relieved, once her daughter is safely married, of the necessity of posing to herself and to the world as the chosen confidante and sponsor of so disturbingly modern a daughter...
...ends of the earth year after year, tormented by fear and remorse, until at last his cycle of self-recrimination brings him again to the silent castle and the "faces cut by the moon to a sternness of stone." The punishment that awaits him has been molded of modern psychoanalysis, but cast in fairy tale...