Word: sensationism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The great sensation of the week was the letter from Pope Pius XI to the Papal Secretary of State, Cardinal Gasparri, suggesting plans for an early Ruhr peace. The Pope backed the suggestion, emanating from U. S. Secretary of State Hughes, for an international conference to fix Germany's...
In China the ancient and honorable game of Mah Jongg is used to settle many disputes and problems. More than one man has, by being careless with an East Wind, found himself sitting in solemn silence in the dull, dark dock of a pestilential prison with a lifelong lock awaiting...
The "Art scandal," concerning the fake antique Gothic statuary in American museums, is investigated by Rene Gimpel, noted French connoisseur. Gimpel says the scandal is faked but the statuary is genuine. Once more the press is hoist by its own sensation.
It is still told among musicians how some years ago there appeared in Russia a boy orchestra conductor, son of Italian parents who were singers in a traveling opera troupe. The lad was nine years old and a genius. The ablest musicians of Russia gathered to applaud the splendor of...
Georges Taupin, a young man, self-admittedly an anarchist, strode into the office of L' Action Française, Royalist journal, and fired a revolver shot into the ceiling. " Don't be afraid," he cautioned the staff, " I have come from the anarchists to warn you." He was...