Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Moreover the movement is wide spread. Tuxedos are out of favor in Berlin, and the social world is revolving on an orbit of hired dress suits. Oregon, after abolishing private schools, has taken a fling at convention and outlawed finger-bowls as "filthy and dangerous and tip-inducing." So important has the question become that a Representative in Congress is encountering serious opposition as candidate for majority leader solely because he owns too many sack suits and has them repaired too often...
...reformers and propagandists learn from this latest discovery, and profit by it. The next of the Wild West Shows that tour Europe can carry the message of International Prohibition. Peggy O'Neil's next London-and-Paris appearance should be used to spread the gospel of Monroe. And when Henry Ford again visits a war-mad Europe, his mission should include not Jane Addams and David Starr Jordan, but Maude Adams, Frances Starr, and Al Jolson. The true purpose of art has been revealed...
...illness real or imagined is decidedly doubtful. The danger in any theory or new discovery is that it will be expected to solve all the riddles of the universe. Fortunately he has no such expectations. His own fore-word denies all miracles and cures. He has merely undertaken to spread more widely some truths which he himself styles "long known", for the increased happiness of the world. If disappointed enthusiasts fail to gain the expected supernatural results, they can hardly blame it on Emile Coue...
...fire, the cause of which is unknown, broke out at about 11.30 on the first floor of the house. It gained raped headway, making quick work of the frame house, and soon spread to the third floor. Seven fire companies were called, and by 1 o'clock the flames were extinguished...
...fast from behind and finally forced Owen out of bounds on Yale's four and one-half yard line. Lee sent Gehrke and then Owen at the line, but the goal remained a scant yard away. Then Buell went in at quarter-back, immediately called for a slightly spread formation with Hammond back, and shot Owen through the line for the winning touchdown. The latter kicked the goal...