Word: spectacularisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strung out in pairs of cars or singly. The five-day itinerary was Palo Alto to Bull Flat in the Eel River Valley; to Medford, Ore.; to Hornbrook, Calif., on the Klamath River; then back to San Francisco by rail, and by motor to Palo Alto again. In the spectacular Redwood country the Nominee sat by a camp fire, told stories, smoked a pipe. Cameramen begged for a "shot" of the pipe. "I am sorry," said the Nominee, "but a pipe is personal to the smoker and I would rather not." At a stop en route, the Nominee was asked...
Other curious cures have been reported from Russia; from Jugoslavia. They remain unsanctioned. To date medical authorities recognize only Xray, radium, the knife. Wise persons remember, on hearing spectacular sagas of carcinoma cures, that nature has a way of being her own healer. Just as the lumpy tumor arises, reason unknown; so it may occasionally be reabsorbed, reason unknown...
...extraordinary. Victor was a good name for a child born in the Omaha of 1871. Greatness seemed to hang over the young city, chartered only 14 years and already connected by telegraph with Chicago, St. Louis, even with distant San Francisco. Three years earlier, Telegrapher Rosewater had watched the spectacular, noisy entry of the railroads, the great Rock Island, Burlington and North Western systems. Across the Missouri river lay Iowa and prosperous Council Bluffs. The birth of Victor and of the Omaha Bee coincided almost exactly with the birth of the meat-packing industry in the city. Omaha seemed clearly...
...History. Utterly out of proportion to Haiti's size and importance are the spectacular dramatics of its history. In 1492 Columbus discovered it, marveled at its extraordinary beauty and fertility, bartered beads and gaudy bracelets for pretty gold-dust friendly "Indians" had found. But the Spaniards' brutality reduced these Indians to a paltry number and, needing laborers, they began importing large numbers of Africans. Before long the color line was so loosely drawn that very few of Santo Domingo's inhabitants could boast unmixed blood. Added to Spanish, Creoles and blacks, were soon the French and English...
...energetic promotions of Milton D. Crandall led naturally to many imitations. By the time of his most spectacular achievement last week, dance marathons were booming all over the U. S. Promoter Crandall himself intended to start others, under slightly more stringent rules, in Buffalo, Paterson, Scranton and Harrisburg, as well as in London, Berlin and Paris, with the assistance of "Cold Cash" Pyle. Of last week's endurance fiestas, the most successful, from a mercenary standpoint, was one in Chicago with which Mr. Crandall had been invited to associate but which his Madison Square engagement antedated. Another contemporary ball...