Word: sensationism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First prize ($1,500) was awarded to Augustus John (TiME, April 14, 21) for his Mme. Suggia, a lady in colorful evening gown, playing a cello. This picture created a sensation a year ago in London when shown at the Alpine Club. It was purchased by William Clyde, Jr., of...
A record discus throw which shattered the University record and bettered the intercollegiate mark,--Carpenter's 152-foot heave,--was the sensation of yesterday's University track meet in which Harvard defeated the Virginia trackmen by an easy margin of 82 to 44 in the first stadium event of the...
United States. The greatest sensation of the year in human fossils came to light on the Rancho Cunajo, near Los Angeles, Calif. A construction company, building a sewer, turned up a petrified skull and bone fragments of five human frames in a sand pit 23 feet below the surface. The...
More prominent among the exhibitions are: Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, a rose, by F. R. Pierson of Tarrytown, N. Y.; Sensation, by C. H. Totty; The Mary Pickford, an orchid by Joseph Manda, of West Orange, N. J. Mrs. Mortimer J. Fox was awarded a special gold medal for her lilies...
Dr. Straton is a preacher of eloquence and force. Even in the face of a serious division of opinion in his own church, he lost neither his courage nor his confidence in the truth of his convictions; and although hailed by his adversaries as almost everything from a stubborn reactionary...