Word: sensationism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anxious to hold out as long as possible, A. J. ("Emperor") Cook, Secretary of the Coal Miners' Federation, took it upon himself to accept 2,500,000 rubles ($1,250,000) which were cabled last week to the British miners' "strike fund" by Moscow labor groups. Britons tut-tutted at...
The symphony of sensation maintained in daily newspapers plays to a large and enthusiastic gallery. Sordidness of all sorts has an appeal which Bares in the habitat of headlines. By a judicious selection of detail, the reporters turn a trial into a drama comparable to that of the Restoration.
The Strikers. The sensation of the week was the rejection by the British Trade Union Council of a "strike fund" check for 250,000 gold rubles ($125,000) despatched to it by the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions. At Amsterdam, however, the Netherlands Trade Union Congress voted 60...
Last week, doddering old General Adolph Messimy (in 1914 Minister of War) created a sensation by calmly announcing that he, not M. Malvy, was the lover of Mata Hari. He said: "During many months, she, by all the means of seduction she knew how to employ in incomparable fashion, tried...
If it is the barber who always needs a haircut and the tailor whose clothes never fit him, then it is the economics professor who makes unwise investments-at least he seldom causes a sensation by making brilliant ones. But the foolish economists of Columbia University will be benefited by...