Word: spectacularisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must sacrifice the other possibility. He can hope for the Presidential nomination only in the case of an open fight, in which his sound but not reactionary record would make him readily available as a compromise candidate. He is not the kind of a man to make a spectacular fight for the nomination. From the standpoint of President Coolidge, the appointment of Mr. Lowden would remove a possible rival. But this fact is publicly known and such an appointment would bear the stigma of a political move. In White House councils this fact may militate against Mr. Lowden's other...
...ceremony in itself was extremely spectacular and characterized by friendliness. Detachments of British, French, Italian and Turkish troops marched into the big square opposite the Dolma Bagtche Palace amid tumultuous cheers from the populace. The Allies saluted the Turkish flag and the Turks saluted the Allies' flags. The appearance of General Harington, Allied Generalissimo, who, more than any other man, is responsible for having maintained the peace under the most difficult of circumstances, was a signal for a prodigious outburst of enthusiasm from the Turks. When he saluted the Turkish flag and gripped the hand of Salah...
...spectacular friendliness which marked the leaving of Turkey absolutely to itself...
...serial attack and in ten plays, with Spalding at quarterback and Crosby playing a brilliant game on the receiving end of the passes, the ball was advanced from the Crimson's 25 yard line to Middlebury's 23 yard line. Then it was lost on downs after a most spectacular pass from Pfaffman to Hill, on which the latter failed to make the necessary distance...
...color art of the future will abandon pigment and concern itself exclusively with light and vibration. It will bear a closer relation to music and drama than to painting. It will be a highly stimulating, spectacular and temporary species of entertainment, responding to the intenser physiological and emotional needs of the modern machineage. The color organ experiments of Wallace Rimington, Scriabine and Thomas Wilfred are partial, but limited, steps in this direction...