Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposition was "Resolved, That this house deplores the large part that advertising plays in modern civilization"; Harvard upheld the affirmative. J. F. Harding '30, opening the case for his side, branded all advertising as merely competitive, instead of educational; and declared that it is intended to appeal to the baser emotions of cupidity, shame, and the like. Werner, of Brown, advocated advertising because it supports mass production and thus raises the wages. G. W. Harrington '30 presented an analysis showing that it causes economic instability, and, eventually, is paid for by the consumer...
...gala crowd of some five hundred people attired in costumes ranging from the prehistoric to Victorian and modern ties, were on hand to lend colour to the spectacular fire in the Iroquois Club, early Saturday morning about 3.30 o'clock...
...publications. Never before has Westinghouse planned so broad, so extensive an effort to sell Westinghouse as a mammoth institution, as a company which does marvels with electricity, as a maker of electrical products of unequaled quality, as a leader of electrical industry-the industry which has made possible modern life...
Young Alexander. The business of translating ancient idols for modern idlers is not new. John Erskine and Robert Emmet Sherwood have taken the edge off the novelty. It would seem that Hardwick Nevin had moments of realizing all this while he was writing his play about Alexander the Great, for he abandons the modern idiom from time to time in his treatment and launches forth into high-sounding blank verse. The result is confusion. Neither young Alexander nor the audience get anywhere...
...Shortly before his death he arranged to buy it for 350,000 francs. After he died, the bank handling the Dreicer estate engaged Sir Joseph Duveen to pass judgment on the authenticity of the statuette, for which 100,000 francs had already been paid. Sir Joseph called it a modern fake, and the bank promptly refused further payments. Mr. Demotte brought suit. Sir Joseph insisted that he had libeled no one, but had merely expressed a solicited opinion. Mr. Demotte's death kept the affair from the courts...