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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John W. Davis with Mrs. Davis, arriving in Plymouth, England, bound Mediterraneanward, exclaimed: "We are in search of sunny skies...
...Pirandello, creator of 'Six Characters in Search of an Author' is probably the best example of this movement...
Ponce de Leon had his filng in search of the isle of Bimini. In modern times science promises synthetic youth. But rejuvenation by the academic method seems the more popular way. Even Harvard has its "Old Dog" basking anew in the sunlight of knowledge and the shadow of an incognito. If retired bond salesmen and cotton merchants should take any wholesale notion to imitate these examples, the "Freshman Red Book" may come to look like an advertising handbook for Colgate's Shaving Cream...
...science, and subsequently led us into what has turned out to be a great scientific era, so now the world is perceiving that it cannot do without art, and its life on earth is not complete and happy without the spiritual content that art alone can bring. It will search for a higher art just as it has reached for a higher science...
...carried the record of one Harry L. Reichenbach, publicity hoaxer extraordinary. One read of "T. R. Zaun" and his pet lion, who registered at a Manhattan hotel just before the film Tarzan of the Apes took the screen; of "Achmet Ben" and party, who entered Manhattan on a "secret" search for "The Virgin of Stamboul"; of the children paid to stare into a store window at September Morn, upon her debut in this cold world, until Anthony Comstock came and raised the fuss that sold Miss Morn into the millions; of "Lot's Wife," sculped in salt to advertise...