Word: sensationism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In 1869 Phoebe Cousins, of St. Louis, created a sensation by being the first woman to enter a law college. The next year three other women, not college graduates, were admitted to the bar-two in Iowa, one in the District of Columbia, In 1885 Mrs. Belle Case La Toilette...
They have entirely lost the great psychological crisis of the book where Trilby's love for Little Billee awakens in her for the first time the shame of her life among the Bohemians of Paris. They have lost, almost as completely, the dramatic crisis where the operatic sensation of...
A new candidate for the world's championship in scientific prediction has arisen to challenge Mr. Herbert George Wells. He is J. B. S. Haldane, reader in biochemistry at Cambridge University, who in the August Century, lays bare to the dazed layman what you might expect If You Were...
John McGraw is troubled. The source of his distemper is the fact that there is only one Jewish ball player (Bohne of Cincinnati), to his knowledge, in the major leagues. McGraw craves a Semitic sensation around his Manhattan ballyard. He craves one to the extent of offering, publicly via a...
Scopolamin (also known as hyoscin), the poisonous alkaloid anaesthetic derived from henbane, deadly nightshade and similar plants, has added another function to its established use in childbirth (TIME, May 12), if we are to believe Dr. R. E. House, of Ferris, Texas, whose paper on its value in revealing truth...