Word: sensationism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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A bulletin was issued: "Hand kissing and hat tipping have been abandoned, for hygienic reasons; and the males and females of the U. S. S. R. are on a par. It now remains to eradicate kissing as a means of salutation between our males, who have displayed notable unprogressiveness in...
Physiologists and physicians made no mockery of a new announcement last week by one Joe H. Pos, civil engineer of Portland, Ore., graduate of the University of Zurich. He said he had constructed an "electric-radio" machine, that regulated blood pressure, whether high or low and he exhibited a box...
Critics Assailed. "If you can imagine a world devoid of newspapers, imagine how much misrepresentation, sensation and scandal there would be in it. The newspaper acts as a limit upon private scandalmongers simply by telling the truth about events likely to provoke misresentation"-J. W. Cunliffe, Director of the Pulitzer...
At the end of the performance there was an historic riot. Composer Harling was mobbed in the lobby. Journalists asserted that at least 200 men kissed and hugged him?for him, ex-director of music at West Point, a new sensation.
(3 of 5) the road and from all the four corners of the earth, and in 1,000 voices, was money, money, money! We were living over a powder mine, and every minute brought a new sensation, brought a dozen of them, brought one hot after another.