Word: origins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States today is a cosmopolitan nation. . . . Citizens of true Anglo-Saxon origin are in meagre minority. During the last 60 years the millions of emigrants from Central Europe, Poles, Slavs, Italians, Sicilians, Jews, Russians, and the Danes, Finns and Swedes, have brought with them into their new home all of Continental Europe's age-old hatred of England...
...avoiding contemporary stodginess, sought for 'human interest.'" (TIME, May 27.) I think you are mistaken in this! I have been a constant reader of the New York World for some 30 years and have no recollection of its editions ever having been printed on yellow paper. The origin of the opprobious "yellow journalism" came about through a "comic" drawn by R. F. Outcault, called "The Yellow Kid." This appeared first in the World; scored such a hit that Hearst bought Outcault away from Pulitzer. It depicted a street gamin who wore a yellow night shirt, on which...
...screen what I have done for the stage." Of the stage he said: "There is too much dirt and nakedness in revues nowadays, and the public is about fed up on them. . . . The sketches now used as black-outs? are the sort that in pre-Prohibition days found their origin in barrooms, and I consider it a disgrace to be associated with a revue producer at the present time. Unless the Follies can be distinguished from the current conception of the revue, I shall abandon them as I have the revue...
...exact origin of the Republican party few historians agree. When the Whigs held their national convention in New York City in 1852, the sidewalks buzzed with popular talk of a new party. Editor Horace Greeley of the Tribune seriously pondered the future with his friend Alvan Earle Bovay, Ripon Whig. The stiff, dignified, stoop-shouldered lawyer from Wisconsin insisted a new party be formed on the slavery issue, suggested to Editor Greeley the name Republican. On March 20, 1854 when the Nebraska-Kansas Bill was pending in the Senate, Lawyer Bovay called a meeting of 58 persons at Ripon...
...glorified war posters, but hitherto these persons have avoided being heralded as boyish, mayhap because of their rather obvious graying hair. Few will question the aptness or the simile who have not been prepared for the first sight of these works by a careful instruction as to their hallowed origin...