Word: sensationism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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For a generation the scintillant acumen of Lord Birkenhead has won him the name of lynx at the bar and lion among the ladies. While Lord High Chancellor of Britain (1919-22) he was revealed as a sphynx possessed of corroding scorn and a face so immobile as to suggest...
For in these days, food and tobacco are the two chief stimulants to well-considered syllables. A good meal provides the indispensable feeling of comfort; a cigar or a pipe prolongs the sensation of ease which, if not interrupted by an unseemly clatter of dishes, is provocative of talk and...
Since almost every foreign commentator upon Soviet politics has predicted within the last few months that M. Zinoviev would instead be ousted from this post by those potent "moderate Communists," Stalin and Premier* Rykov, the sensation of last week was notable.
Glory Hallelujah. Perhaps too much was expected of this strange tragedy. Word floated around that an extraordinary sensation was in store for the weary playgoers; wise folk behind the scenes averred that a great play had been written. The initial assembly expected to whoop with joy. Therefore when the play...
In 1906, at the age of 17, Jay Gould won the national court tennis championship from Charles E. Sand. He became the sporting sensation of the decade. He went abroad to get a match with Eustace H. Mills, champion of England, who did not want to play him at all...