Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...testing process consists of tying a handkerchief before the eyes of the participant, and then giving him three or four brands of popular cigarettes to smoke in succession, among which is an Old Gold. The object of the test is to see if the contestant can pick this one out of the rest. If he does, he wins, and his face appears on the back covers of magazines. If he doesn't he is put out of the trials and disqualified...
...aroused in the country today if President Lowell should announce his adherence to communism. For the Baptists were the Bolsheviks of that era; their wild orgies at Nunster, and the attempt of John of Leyden to overturn the State, were known to everyone. Just so today many good people see a necessary connection between denying infant baptism and destroying the basis of society. Of course the assumption that Henry Dunster would follow after John of Leyden was just as absurd as the assumption held by many loyal Harvard graduates, that liberal professors were in league with Moscow...
...college of the size and nature of Harvard can give no single man, much less Mr. Seldes, a complete view of its nature. There seem to be so many characteristics of Harvard that no individual can see them all from his limited position. For example, one may attempt to classify the student body. He will find, among others, six groups--those dominated by a social complex, those with an intellectual complex, a pecuniary complex, an athletic complex, or a combination of these complexes, and finally, those with no complexes at all. Which is predominant is a matter open to question...
...expect to see entire operas staged for the Vitaphone in a few years. Whether or not it will do away with the stage presentation is another matter, but it is certain that heretofore we have had nothing that even remotely approached the vivid manner in which the 'talkies' present a story," he said...
...popular play that ever ran in Manhattan was Abie's Irish Rose, which closed with its 2,400th performance on the night of Oct. 22, 1927. No one ever learned what glib compelling secret Anne Nichols had put into her play to make so many people want to see it. She herself has not been able to repeat its success; imitators have been unable, in story, play or cinema to duplicate its homely attractions...