Word: sensationism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The financial sensation of the past week has been the completely unex- pected slash in the rediscount rate of the Bank of England, from 5 to 4 1/2%.
A secondary sensation followed upon the first. It was found that Mr. Wittner, in taking his oath of office, had not only stricken out the word "swear" and left "affirm" (which is an offered alternative since certain sects regard swearing as blasphemous), but had also stricken out the words "so...
*The dress created a tremendous sensation at the Durbar. It was willed to the Kedleston estate.
On a smiling Sunday morning in Budapest, just after people were returning from early mass, news-venders did an unusually thriving business. The journal in demand was the Royalist As Ujsag (The News). In it, Edmund Beniczky, ex-Minister of the Interior and present leader of the Legitimists in the...
Shirts told it to the White Collars ; and from every corner of the U. S. over which the Italian flag waves, they came to stand in line at the doors of the Manhattan Opera House, wherein Bernardo de Muro, famed Italian tenor, sang last week in Trovatorc. Next day, Manhattanites...