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Word: sensationism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was an acrobatic dancer, one Mlle. Simone Roseray, who performed adequately enough, in a Manhattan night club. The press-agent for this night club, one Irving Strouse, cudgeled his wits to think of some smart dodge whereby he could place Mlle. Roseray and the club in which she performed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wet | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

Altogether the eighth "Follies" is one of those mammoth spectacles which, beginning in Boston, ultimately reaches New York without a single number of the opening night left in it. There it will not create a sensation but it will certainly carry on an old tradition before audiences which like its...

Author: By R. T. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/26/1928 | See Source »

Ziegfeld stated that he had kept these ideas in mind when he produced "Show Boat," which he called "the greatest sensation ever seen in America."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flo Ziegfeld Finds America Likes More Sensible Plots in Musical Shows--Jack Donahue Styles Magnate "Good Guy" | 1/10/1928 | See Source »

The Lone Eagle. The transoceanic flights of last summer have been covered by a multitude of cinemas. The Lone Eagle is one of the more petty. It describes the aeronautical antics of an aviator in the late war who. disproves a rumor of cowardice by winning a desperate air duel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jan. 2, 1928 | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

When there is a lack of cheaper free sensation-fodder for newspaper presses, how large a sum is it good business to pay for a really choice blob of pedigreed scandal?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Good Business? | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

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