Word: sensationism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"He gave the delicious and precious sensation one gets from enriching oneself without effort of understanding and without study, and of witnessing a spectacle without paying. His dilettanteism, his diversity of information and his knowledge were other great sources of his favor."
The latest answer to the time honored query, "What's in a name?" comes from the Middle West and informs us that as much as $100,000 dollars a year can be drawn from nothing more than a happy combination of letters. "Red" Grange, former sensation of mid-Western gridirons...
Prince Valerian Ossinski provided the only (mild) sensation of the week when he protested to the League that the Swiss police were guarding him against assassination so effectively that he was virtually a prisoner in his own hotel. Soon League officials persuaded the Swiss to desist. Prince Ossinski later spoke...
Valery is by reputation the defender of the conscious mind. A man of wide and profound learning, as well as a poet, and an admirer of the creations of the mind which constitute our civilization, he has set himself the problem of discussing the basis of the intellectual life. The...
*A figment of the imaginations of other newspapermen. At a White House press conference last month, the correspondents sought to pry from the President substantiation for a rumor that Secretary Kellogg was to resign, that Mr. Hoover would succeed him. Nettled by insistent insinuations, the President answered sharply that Mr...