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Word: sensationism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Criminal justice in America is now a Roman holiday. The courts are in the Colosseum. The state's attorney's office often is an open torture room of human souls. Exposure of the processes of justice, originally a public safeguard, has been perverted into a public danger. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Confessional | 8/4/1924 | See Source »

Between Worlds is another German film (notwithstanding its "European" label). It is not as good as Dr. Caligari, having a more amphorus texture, more turgid symbolism, more labored scenic effort for sensation. Even so, it leaves the mass of present-day American films far, far behind. Known abroad as One...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 14, 1924 | 7/14/1924 | See Source »

The Enemy Sex. This renovated version of Owen Johnson's novel, The Salamander, shows how times have changed, for the book in its time was a sensation, dealing as it did with girls who dared everything in order to accumulate a little experience. Now it seems like just a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 7, 1924 | 7/7/1924 | See Source »

John Hertz of Chicago (TIME, May 5) is not easily discouraged. Beginning as a copy boy at eleven in a Chicago newspaper office, he emerged a few years ago as the genius of the Yellow Taxicab and other kindred companies, whose tremendous rise was the sensation of the Chicago Stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Hertz's Deal | 7/7/1924 | See Source »

In Manhattan, it is to the New York American (Hearst) and the Daily News (Chicago Tribune Co.) that sensation-mongers, scandal-gluttons and other addicts of "the pandering press" turn to gratify their low tastes. To The New York World and other papers, a higher class of reader turns for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Low Taste | 7/7/1924 | See Source »

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