Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan prominent artists cudgelled their imaginations for the perfect perfume bottle. Art, business and chemistry had effected a triangular combine which was expected to benefit all three. The Art Alliance of America had sponsored an invitation competition for perfume bottle designs in the modern manner. This was held at the instigation of Mr. & Mrs. Carlton Palmer of Brooklyn, who donated prizes of $500 and $200. Mr. Palmer is president of E. R. Squibb & Sons, manufacturing chemists, famed for toothpaste, milk of magnesia. More relevantly, he is vice president of Lentheric, ultra-modern Fifth Avenue perfume shop, where simplicity, angularity, silver...
...aversions are: Immoral students who study the conquest of Providence flappers more closely than the conquests of Macedonian Alexander; football rally stickers pasted on certain parts of Brown's ill-proportioned equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius; intoxicating liquors, which Parson Faunce refuses to believe his young gentlemen drink; sexy modern novels, instanced by the case of English Instructor Percy ("Plastic Age") Marks who was asked to resign when his college novel reached Parson Faunce's sedate office. Percy Marks complied...
...Modern Painting in Germany," Professor Pault. Fogg Museum...
Hastily he planted the scrapings in test tubes with germ culture mediums. He sealed the tubes so that no modern air could affect the scrapings. If he did have pre-Cambrian life in his tubes modern air would spoil his research, for the earth's present atmosphere is quite different from that of geological ages...
...this has been done a thousand times before; generally, however, with boots, spurs, duels, serious passions. The Command Performance is modern romance, feathery, sophisticated. The queen smokes cigarets; the King of Wallachia abuses his wife, as does Lord Trench in The High Road; the actor, played well by Ian Keith, kisses the queen's hand in farewell and then pats it with affection; the prince, played less well by Ian Keith, sets off for the U. S. to make his living, one suspects, in a night club...