Word: romanticism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THERE are few ages in the history of England about which it is easier to become romantic than that of Anne and George the First. The gay, corrupt life pictured in "The Beggar's Opera", when Walpole talked of a man and his price, and nobody's virtue was over...
Romantic reporters who discuss the Van Sweringen Rail Empire also discuss the Van Sweringens as Rail Emperors. On such a basis, however, able John J. Bernet should certainly be listed as at least No. 1 Field Marshal. For though the Van Sweringens may handle the stocks and bonds, it is...
Then something happened. A rose bush was discovered where tulips should have been. Caretaker Grant lost his temper, the young man lost his job. And next night travelers Manhattan-bound on the State of Maine Express watched a young man, dark-eyed, keenly alert, chew a pencil, write many a...
How this experience resulted in felt hats rather than in felt shoes, legend does not relate, but it is undeniably true that the raw material for felt hats is the little animal with the long ears and the reputation for timidity and fertility. The straw hat lacks a romantic legendary...
Talkies will now be available in the following mood-colors worked out at the Eastman Laboratories: 1) Rose Dorce ("sensuousness and passion . . . amorous, romantic and exotic"); 2) Peachblow (''feminine beauty . . . the glow of life"); 3) Afterglow ("dawn and sunset scenes, interiors of luxury"); 4) Firelight ("intimate home relationships...