Word: spectacularisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lawns, fountains and a cold blue surf, stands smoothly against the ocean. Here fashionable people drift across bright water in sailboats or across wide polished roads in automobiles. Across Salisbury Cove other fashionable people have their docks for swimming, in Winter Harbor. Along the coast is the polite and spectacular beauty of Mount Desert. Sorrento lies near the three, a village in which there are a few big country places and several inns, where people, rich and respectable rather than smart, stay for a few weeks or a month...
Custis Knapp (retired) [TiME, Aug. 8] seems to have a mind incapable of understanding any brand of manliness and courage excepting that of the spectacular variety which, accompanied by flag-waving and the blare of trumpets, goes out to destroy and kill...
...retired zinc man (TIME, July 11), a Manhattan judge last week sentenced one John Healy to a prison term of one and one-half to three years. But, said the judge, the New York Legislature could not have foreseen, when it framed the state law on vandalism, such a spectacular achievement as Vandal Healy's with bone and bottles. The vandalism law, said the judge, should be stiffened to protect art owners. One George Tiernan, drinking companion of Vandal Healy during his onslaught in the Lihme apartment, was discharged by the court, having been cleared, by Vandal Healy...
...commonplaces, none is more spectacular than calling the U. S. a "melting pot." The Noyes wrapping for this household article is "new united Europe." He defends the U. S. delay in entering the War by picturing U. S. polyglot population as a sturdy band of folk collectively dismayed and none too impressed by the quarrels of their stay-behind cousins back in Europe. He soothes Revolutionary rancor by embracing Washington, Franklin, Hancock, et al., as Englishmen and even appeals to the Empire spirit of Britons by revealing a bevy of immigrant children singing "My Country "Tis of Thee...
...These men, thought Mr. Sullivan, would be sorry to lose so good a vote-getter as Calvin Coolidge but ? personal ambitions quite aside ? they would not seek to nominate him now because that would be "the sort of thing that 'is not done'. It would be sensational, spectacular, emotional. The Republicans like to think of them selves as a little too orderly to do that sort of thing...