Word: sensationism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Los Angeles left Lakehurst at 3:40 on a Friday afternoon and, a few minutes after rising, picked up speed, passed over the Barnegat Light at 55 knots or approximately 60 miles an hour, with only four of her five engines running. Her action was steady and even, without...
In the stockmarket, which has lately been the band ahead of the Business Prosperity Parade, a purely technical reaction has occurred. Meanwhile, industrial and commercial news continues to grow more favorable. Commodity prices at wholesale are experiencing a sharp rise. Gasoline is being marked up. The steel industry is operating...
To a certain type of newspaper the ability to guess shrewdly is almost as great a necessity as membership in the Associated Press. To such papers a guess, if backed by proper attendant circumstances in fact, will create a sensation, will steal a march upon rival papers, and will attract...
It is quite a sensation to see a really good revue. Hassard Short's Ritz Revue, featuring Charlotte Greenwood is all of that. The appearance of the chorus put us in a good humor. Somehow it lacked the air, so common to choruses, of having been aged in the wood...
A financial sensation this fall has been the long rise of sterling exchange in terms of U. S. dollars. In February, 1923, sterling reached $4.71-the highest level since the loosening of War control over the Allied exchanges in March, 1919. The advance was not maintained, however, and by December...