Word: sensationism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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(3 of 3) fired at from the shore-probably as a hint to keep midstream lest the wash endanger a levee. The Red Cross quickly collected a $5,000,000 relief fund, began a drive for $5,000,000 more. Pestilence and curtailed water supply threatened crowded refugee camps. Governor...
That question seemed unnecessary. Sari Fedak was divorced (1925) from Hungary's most successful playwright, smug Ferenc Molnar, after he had accused her of intimacy with 42 gentlemen, and she had replied in kind with a list of 142 ladies. The sensation, at the time, was international, if not...
George Antheil, U. S. born, European-educated, presented for the first time in his native land his Bullet Mecanique, which nearly precipitated a riot on its premiere in Paris (TIME, March 21). The young composer's theory is to express the U. S; in its own terms of steel...
Before the Canadian House of Commons, at Ottawa, the Speaker, Rodolphe Lemieux, created a mild sensation last week by descending from the Chair and speaking as follows from the floor: "The Postmaster General and the Minister of Customs are both Christian gentlemen, and I hope they will confer together and...
"In this audaciously frank autobiography, the most glamorous figure since Lord Byron shares with us his confessions and his memories. ... Strange wastrel days ... flashes of long-gone frolics ... These astounding confessions bid fair to become the sensation of the literary year," said a Ladies' Home Journal advertisement in October...