Word: sunday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conscious America". Returning from the new Magna Americana on the left bank of the Sethe, he is ready to place another Maine Street beside those of the maligned Middle West. There is little difference, in his opinion, between the multiple masses of the mediocre who are content with the Sunday suppliments and those who fill Paris with their now conventional caprice. The self consciousness of the one matches that of the ether. "To have to choose between literary baseball fans and the Boy Scouts of Dadaism" is, to quote Mr. Lewis, rather difficult...
...baiting of the religious trap may be carried to still greater lengths. Last Sunday evening the First Methodist Episcopal church of Lynn managed to gather three thousand people within its walls through the admirable device of showing movies to the congregation and advertising the affair beforehand with electric signs and a trumpeter in fancy dress...
...itself to the doors. And if the progressive pastor of this Lynn church wishes to extend his new idea to cover ethical and social problems, only animated cartoons will be found unsuitable. It may be assumed that at least a few of the Lynn Methodists did not approve, last Sunday evening: and the curator of the local cemetery might afford an interesting interview on how much he was disturbed by the tumbling and tossing of the church's founders in their century-old graves...
Creators of comic strips have done much with the Sunday Night idea; what could be better material? Papa in his stocking feet; Mama in a temper; horrible noises rising around from huge-mouthed canary birds, thrown vases, dying pet; "Awk," "Tweet-Tweet," "Glub-Glub," "Plunk," "Zowie...
Last week A. Atwater Kent, manufacturer of radio apparatus, proposed to substitute for the comic stripper's idea of Sunday night another vision-that of a smiling Mama, Papa, infant, listening to the sounds that issue from an Atwater Kent radio. And the sounds, too, would be different. In place of the comic stripper's unnamable babble, would ring the voices of Louise Homer, Anna Case, Edward Johnson, Mabel Garrison, Reinald Werrenrath, Frieda Hempel, the instruments of Toscha Seidel, Mischa Levitzki, the New York State Symphony Orchestra. These artists have already been engaged. Mr. Kent will pay them...