Word: stoker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week this grisly theme (fictionized with great power some years ago by Bram Stoker in the vampire novel, Dracula) was presented on the London stage. Count Dracula and his terrible vampire sisters so worked upon the emotions of Britons during the week that an average of two women and three men had hysterics, collapsed or fainted during each performance. Since Dracula promises to be a dramatic hit, the management, shrewd,-installed at the theatre a trained nurse...
Pugilist Breitenstraeter, heavyweight champion of Germany, entered the ring in Berlin for a 20-round bout. His opponent was Paul Sampson, né (in Germany) Samson Koerner. Koerner was once a stoker on an American ship. In 1920, in this country, boxing under the name of Sampson, he gave Gene Tunney, American light heavyweight champion, a terrific bout. The next year Tom Gibbons knocked him out in two rounds. Farmer Lodge (TIME, Mar. 3) did the same...
...fundamental principle of expressionism is the representation not of the appearance of a scene, but its meaning. A characteristic instance was the Fifth Avenue scene in Eugene O'Neill's Hairy Ape. Jewels were to the misplaced stoker only tinsel; so the shop window was filled not with gems, but tinsel. The wealthy churchgoers appeared to him automatons; so a squeaky procession of masked automatons marched across the stage...