Word: spectacularisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year, 117, was reached on Jan. 19. By Feb. 8, it had hit 149¼. Responding to the two brief periods of market weakness, it lost 20 points in the last week of February, won them back, then lost 10 points in the week ending June 16. Sharp and spectacular was its recovery. It soared...
...almost traditional to find reformers and nostrum dispensers digging far more deeply than necessary to find the cause and suggest the cure for student ailments. When a properly qualified person enters the field, and suggests a probable, though simple cause, he is ignored merely because he is not spectacular enough. The tabloids demand at least a scandal, and the serious-minded expect a psychological complication of the most severe sort...
...year ago airplanes brushed through the clouds above the wild Atlantic, in this last summer tiny boats, smaller than those which first traversed it, have been the most spectacular traffickers upon its wastes. The smallest of all these is the canoe, equipped with oar-locks, sails and a motor, in which Franz Romer started out last March from Lisbon to "row" across the Atlantic to New York. This canoe, the Deutsche Sport, arrived in Saint Thomas a month ago (TIME, Aug. 13) and left Porto Rico two weeks later, bound for Florida. The southeastern skies grew dark and a huge...
Lutherans. Less spectacular, not as good copy as Mrs. Willebrandt's politocsin, but able to knock the Democratic campaign among Lutherans to Smithereens is the National Lutheran Editors' Association, whose media reach two million readers. Apropos of the campaign the editors voted to tell their readers that the Catholic Church requires of its members allegiance to a "foreign sovereign." (TIME, Sept...
PORGY-The last week of the Theatre Guild's spectacular play about low, black fishermen who live along the stormy wharves of Charleston (TIME...