Word: spectacularisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comprehensive study. He may be married in one state, bigamous in another and, after supporting his fair share of wives for a number of years, find that he has been a bachelor all his life. All these arguments Mr. Hughes has woven into a singularly tedious picture. The spectacular absurdity of his disposal of the villain (the hero throws him into a boiling Yellowstone geyser, the geyser evinces internal retching and active nausea, the villain is spewed several hundred feet in the air) provides a grotesque conclusion. One gathers that Mr. Hughes favors either a national code of divorce laws...
...ambitious nobles, who seek to usurp the crown. In his comedy parts he is substantially aided by Robert Rosaire, who has the strenuous role of Dapple, Sancho's beloved donkey. But the entire east is a strong one; the performance is smooth and finished, the scenes are spectacular and interesting...
...Harvard line-up. Four of the starting sextet were Freshman football players last fall, and Burke, the goal-tender, was manager of the first-year eleven. Zarakov, at center, is the same brilliant performer on the rink that he was on the gridiron. He scored three goals, and his spectacular length-of-the-rink dash in the second period was the best individual bit of the afternoon. He out-skated the entire Malden team and, catching the net-guardian off balance, drove the puck home. His supporters in the forward line, Hamlen and Scott, both of whom were quarterbacks last...
...will go down in history as lavish in extra dividends to stockholders. An almost interminable list of corporations, great and small, has followed the lead made some weeks past by the U. S. Steel Corporation in making presents to stockholders. Such an occurrence has not been witnessed since the spectacular but lamented year...
...spectacular controversy in the Episcopalian Church has found its echo in the University. A meeting of students wishing to take part in the struggle has been called at the Phillips Brooks House tomorrow at 6 o'clock, to discuss and ascertain undergraduate opinion on the matter under discussion, which was brought to its height when Dr. Leighton Parks, Rector of St. Bartholomew's in New York, denounced last Sunday the virgin birth of Christ...