Word: sensationism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rosa Raisa, whose majestic height has never been more beautiful than this winter, sang Toinette. It was a vulgar part, but Raisa was severely criticized for making it unnecessarily revolting. She seemed to lose the sympathy of her audience?for her, a new sensation.
The square-shouldered Vandervelde signed next, without causing comment. But "A. Briand" was "fairly dashed into script." Mr. Baldwin signed "easily and casually." Sir Austen, however, created practically a sensation by "taking off the monocle, without which he is never seen . . . adjusting a pair of horn-rimmed spectacles and signing...
¶With Chancellor Luther and Foreign Minister Stresemann in the Distinguished Visitors' Gallery of the House of Commons, noted Scotch Laborite Arthur Henderson* created a sensation by demanding to be told once and for all whether the dead bodies of German soldiers were ever "boiled down" by their comrades...
Two years ago sensation articles began to appear in your journal. Later came an outrageous attack upon the priests' convention (the Anglo-Catholic Congress) at Philadelphia. The articles were absurd, silly and malicious; they stopped short of libel.
Mr. Lardner was not actually concerned in the writing of the play, yet the leading character resembles his celebrated Jack Keefe, the conceited, blatant young professional baseballer. If the resemblance had been accurate, Solid Ivory might have been a sensation. As it is, it is simply a fair slang comedy...