Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time in which there can be said to be 'style". Movie palaces of lavishness not excelled in any period of history are a classic example of this tendency. The continued popularity of night clubs, revues in the grand manner, automobiles in garish colors, all bespeak a desire for the rich and gaudy rather than a gradual return to a stately simplicity, while the actions of American tourists in Europe have been such as to show them far ahead of the Europeans as exhibitionists American prosperity made this country go off at a tangent, but once there, everybody rather enjoyed...
...Rich-If you do not mind the title you will like the show...
...managing editor at 32. Soon after the War, by working on Mr. Hearst's Chicago Herald-Examiner and New York American, he found what "news" the gum-chewers of his country will swallow. Then, the New York Daily News, first of the tabloids, was started by the two rich, hard-boiled publishers of the Chicago Tribune, Joseph Medill Patterson, Robert R. McCormick. Mr. Payne, an earnest, bespectacled Puck, was invited to become an assistant editor. He rose to fame as the Daily News leaped upward to the highest circulation in the U. S. Last year, Publisher Hearst...
...when it is remembered that belief in the legitimate use of wine--and of New England rum--seems pretty well marked in successive generations of New England Puritans. It is difficult to accept the idea that Longfellow is "the first figure in American letters to discover Europe as a rich mine." What of Irving, and was even Irving the first? Is it wise to say that the poet projected a drama on Cotton Mather but nothing came of it (pp. 226-227), when that redoubtable Puritan figures as he does in the New England Tragedies? And, surely, Joel Barlow...
...Professor John Erskine now proceeds to lay bare to the sophisticates the story of Galahad or, as he subjoins, "enough of his life to explain his reputation". There are rumors that exposes of Cleopatra and other famous and lovely ladies of antiquity will follow. Mr. Erskine has struck a rich vein and his investigations are receiving popular acclaim. If he stops this side of sensationalism, and, from the nature of his own literary character one has the right to assume that he will, he will have provided a new and amusing genre, building modern fables on ancient foundations...