Word: spectacularisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...each one of as would go forth to an enlightened hermitage. All this attention to self is subordinate to a more fundamental urge the desire to express that self in relation to others; to prove to the world that we in seeking known! edge rather than more immediate and spectacular benefits, have chosen the better path to real happiness and success, which is realized in the broader and more sympathetic contacts with the world. We choose our extra-curricular activities with a view to meeting our individual needs in the process of fulfilling that desire. In this capacity...
...Hoffman has been pitiably wasteful with his material; he has contented himself with a mere outline, where an experienced sensationalist could have been really spectacular. For example, it would be interesting to know how large an excavation could be filled with the dirt removed from the ten thousand graves occupied each year by murderers and their victims; and also whether the knives and bullets extracted from the deceased would, if melted up in a large brass cauldron, be numerous enough to east into a life size status of Gyp the Hloon, to be placed at the entrance to Murder Alley...
...minutes drew to a close the leaders appealed to the Speaker to determine how much time each had left. Then, as in the final moments of a football game, they made their most spectacular efforts. Hardly any one spoke more than a sentence without interruption. The time keeper's whistle blew. Mr. Green moved a vote. The yeas and nays were taken...
...however, been far from a wasted year for University basketball. Playing a harder schedule than ever before, the Crimson proved itself to be almost, though not quite, on a par with the Intercollegiate League teams. The high light of the season was a spectacular 38 to 16 victory over Dartmouth, when the Harvard quintet showed its true worth. The other battles with league teams were defeats, but never by a margin of more than nine points and always after the Crimson had been in the lead for a considerable part of the contest...
Yolanda. Marion Davies follows her first spectacular picture, When Knighthood Was in Flower, with a cinema out of the same wardrobe. It is. a medieval tale, highly costumed -a Princess of Burgundy, her cruel father, the half-wit son of the French King. Miss Davies manages two roles. She weeps artistically over a handsome suitor, but the story leaves you calm. Despite great pictorial beauty and a squad of villains, the picture has no drive. It is a gorgeous military parade, with armies in armor and battlements for lighter relief...