Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the youth of a school greet a visiting governor of a state such greeting is not generally an informal one and it was no exception to the rule on this occasion; on the contrary, the governor was greeted by the pupils en masse, waving the Star-Spangled Banner and singing-yes, singing! Were they singing "The star-spangled banner . . . long may it wave," or "My Country 'Tis of Thee" or "The Red, White and Blue ?" They were not. They accompanied the waving of the Stars and Stripes with singing in chorus "The Sidewalks of New York...
...somehow, the better members of the newspaper trade manage it. When they fail, their failure is usually confined to an inside page. But last week, in a two column story about the Yale-Harvard boat-race that began on the front page of the Herald-Tribune, Grantland Rice, star writer (believed to have originated the phrase, "Now the goalposts loomed upon the deepening shadow . . .") set a record. As a noun and in adjectival form, he used the word "rhythm" sixteen times, as follows: Spurts Wail Before Elis Rhythmic Beat . . . the flawless rhythm of Ed Leader. . . Yale's rhythmic beat...
Good and Naughty (Pola Negri). The Polish star is obviously hungry for stories. In this one the plot splits early and falls apart, leaving only the most obvious recourse to door-slamming society slapstick. Miss Negri impersonates a young feminine assistant in an architect's office. Her duty in life seems to be to save one of the junior partners from an unworthy alliance with a married woman. Later the story shifts to Florida and farce runs wild. Miss Negri is less at home with heedless humor than she is with the hot cyclones of emotion...
Tabloid newspapers, as such, were severely frowned upon and resolved against by publishers of New York State at their convention last week. No sooner said than done. Almost simultaneously Publisher William J. Conners Jr. of Buffalo announced that he had effected the demise of the tabloid Buffalo Star and Enquirer. But Publisher Conners was not actuated purely by disapproval of tabloid technic. He had lumped the sheetlet in with his other holdings, the lately-merged Courier and Express (TIME, June 21). Four months ago Buffalo had six daily papers and Publisher Conners three competitors in the morning field. Now Buffalo...
Charles Dickens tells how the ladies of his time put in their albums the nail parings of royalty. Flaxen hair, if long and on the skull, brought ten shillings an ounce in England in 1662. Last week in California a moving-picture star was offered $5,000 for the trimmings of his next haircut. The buyer stated that he sold the stellar tufts, together with reproductions of photographs, for $10 and up per package...