Word: sensationism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These union grafters, with their $10,000 salaries apparently added to by heavy bribes extorted from the contractors and corporations, have supplied the real sensation of the building trades investigation. Against such a system of blackmail as that which they put in force, the "hated capitalist" was bound to react...
While Police Commissioner Enright of New York was taking a vacation on the Caribbean Sea, a great hullabaloo was raised over the "crime wave" which was convulsing the city because of the evil ways in which the police had fallen. Figures appeared showing the prevalency of crime and the failure...
The material of the plot is only too familiar; it is too laboriously and unconvincingly developed to send that creepy sensation up the collective spines of the audience. The play takes a prologue and one uninteresting act to get under way; but the last two acts have at least the...
The Oxford relay team has always created a sensation, and in 1913 in the fourmile relay race against Pennsylvania the English four won by inches.