Word: spectacularisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...colleges which adopt it can be determined only through experience. As to the dangers which this plan is liable to involve such as the advent of a time "when Yale men will wade into Paradise Lost for the greater glory of Yale" or the introduction of "the evils of spectacular athletic competition into scholarship" there should be little cause for worry. The want of "a good stage manager" and the "element of personal contact" should be enough to guarantee against the commercialization of scholarship or the fostering of a desire to win by any methods rather than to learn through...
...always, business was stimulated by the spectacular. Spread out over the waspish little ship in which Bleriot first flew across the English Channel, stood the huge trimotored plane in which Commander Richard E. Byrd hopes to conquer the Antarctic. Opposite stood a model of the first Wright machine, in which man first made an honest flight a quarter of a century...
Furniture, tapestries, rugs, statues-these were sold at three other sessions of the auction of Judge Gary's collection. The last was by far the most spectacular; this brought the total for the entire sale to $2,297,763, the largest amount ever returned at a U. S. art auction. The most notable piece purchased on the last afternoon was a small marble bust by Jean Antoine Houdon; the head was that of a plump and imperious baby girl, the daughter of the artist. The woman who got the bust was later discovered to be a buyer...
...politician, but an opera star. Surely there is only one opera star in Chicago sufficiently distinguished to have her future family recorded, and surely her name is Mary Garden. Yet it was not Mary Garden, the aged unmarried maiden. The name that appeared was that of a less spectacular but artistically far more competent diva, Rosa Raisa. She, a lady with an equally imposing stage presence, and a far better voice, who refused this winter the leading role in the world premiere of Boito's long delayed Nerone, and who, at 34, is listed among the greatest dramatic sopranos...
Among the Republicans, it was a spectacular primary even for spectacular Illinois. It was the Republicans who tried to spell Reform. About 100,000 Democrats got excited and joined in the G. O. P. melee, confusing things more than ever. The Republican primary had the following results and implications...