Word: spectacularisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Potomac. It should be realized, however, that it takes many years to establish rubber plantations, and that in the light of the recent overproduction prospects for such a venture over the next decade are not promising. The great " rubber boom " in London in 1910 was followed by a spectacular list of failures. It would be a more sensible course for large American consumers of rubber to enter the pres-ent "Rubber Syndicate" and cooperate with it in a fair stabilization of prices. Brazil's own experience with the valorization of coffee is a sufficient indication of the danger...
...Enemies of Women. A magnificently spectacular adaptation of Ibanez' novel. Lionel Barrymore heads an excellent cast. The trouble with the picture is that there is too much of it. Some of it is gripping, but it is smothered under an enormous mass of rubbish. Where the Pavement Ends. Alice Terry and Ramon Navarro help make this a good picture. Rex Ingram's direction does make it an extraordinary one. The story, from John Russell's The Passion Vine, is of the daughter of a South Sea missionary, starving for love. For want of anything better, she becomes...
When the excavator's shovel can unearth a piece of tapestry or a gold cup which so catches the popular fancy that the styles of the world are changed, the less spectacular work of men like Professor George A. Reisner is temporarily overshadowed. No brilliant treasures were found in the pilfered tombs unearthed by the expedition from this University and the Boston Museum, and the accident of publicity did not popularize their work. Yet their discoveries add whole new chapters to Ethiopian history which will be read when Tut-ankh-Amen has dropped to the footnotes...
...ahead again. The lead changed hands three times in the last few minutes, but the Crimson team secured the last four points of the game. Watson, left forward for Yale, led the scoring with 17 of his team's 29 points, while the two Crimson guards. Combs, by his spectacular shooting at critical moments, and Maher by his excellent offensive and defensive work, were the outstanding players for the winners...
...small man, weighing less than one hundred pounds, with a fretful, nagging body," who walks with "a bantam, egregious stride." The plot of the novel is the story of Galt's triumphs. Incident by incident they may be substantially paralleled in Mr. Harriman's career. First, a spectacular rise; second, reverses, foes, almost defeat; finally, triumph and death. Mr. Garrett has written many articles about Wall Street. What private sources of information he may have had access to is not known. But the book in general follows the broad lines of the great railroader's generally known...