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Word: sensationism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sensation. A significant despatch last week indicated that Gregory Zinoviev, "spiritual son of Lenin," has been re-elected chairman of the Third International, or world-wide Communist bureau for propaganda, terror and general subversion.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia Notes: Apr. 19, 1926 | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

To the newspaper category of master minds of the criminal world have been added more alluring terms. Recently, the press has christened a cake-eater bandit, a maniac murderer, and a radio burglar. In this manner is modern crime dally dramatized for the sake of sensation and presented to an...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PERVERTED ARIEL | 4/13/1926 | See Source »

Had Neptune risen from the vasty deep last week and climbed the tribune of the German Reichstag wearing a double nannygoat beard, the sensation could scarcely have exceeded that caused by the "maiden speech" of Grand Admiral Alfred Friedrich von Tirpitz.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Tirpitz Roused | 4/5/1926 | See Source »

Thus Mary Lewis, an orphan, ran away from her adopted parents-the Rev. and Mrs. William Fitch of Little Rock, Ark.-to become a chorus girl. The stair that creaked in that breathless dawn seven years ago still creaks, loudly and efficiently, as people pass up and down on household...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Little Rock | 4/5/1926 | See Source »

Last week an enterprising German publisher advertised that he would shortly distribute a bit of popular sheet music entitled "The Minstrel's Waltz by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht." At Berlin, the sensation equaled that which might be produced in Manhattan by announcing that Mr. John P. Morgan had just composed the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Schacht Trapped | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

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