Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coming of the Lord . . . Great Confusion Upon Earth . . . September 16, 1936 was announced last year in Manhattan by a Mrs. Edna Bandler in Vol. 1, No. 1 of a magazine called The Prophet. Last week, Mrs. Bandler turned up in the news again, conducting a "Week of Prophecy" in Town Hall, daily donning a white veil and prophesying for the 25 to 100 people who dropped in, admission free, to hear...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news...
...chowchow-breeders have long considered the chowchow the most vicious of domestic dogs. They are singleminded, leonine, black-mouthed, fiery-eyed beasts, interested only in their owners and sometimes surly even to them. Last week a chowchow leaped malevolently into the news...
Rowland Palace was an author who had polish and irony-and a young wife with an eye that pierced pretense. An unflattering news picture of himself set Palace pondering nervously on what people really thought about him. His considered conclusion: that every public figure should create or control the effigy of himself he showed to the world. Because he felt that Brynhild, his wife, might take a less than sympathetic view, he planned his ensuing publicity campaign in secret, with such conscience-bolstering sentiments as: "No human beings have ever really seen themselves. . . . They pose and act. They tell stories...
...jarring left: ("The motion pictures should tell their stories on the screen truthfully according to human values. They should not lie about them.") At the sight of Socialist Norman Thomas climbing into the ring to join Professor Eastman's attack, Publisher Quigley retired to a neutral corner. Paramount News Assignment Editor William P. Montague took his place, gave ground a little when he admitted that newsreels perhaps tended to be superficial (see below) but blamed the public's insistence on being entertained at all costs. "To get a camera and go to work" was exactly what critics...