Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Newman's work is well and entertainingly written, with a wealth of scholarship and a shrewd insight. He is never carried away by his theme, always preserves a just sense of proportion. And his inspection of the great musician's personal idiosyncrasies is far from devoid of a sly humor...
...Procurcur Hallers came next. It was a frank melodrama on the Jekyll and Hyde theme with a woman added...
...super-motion picture, made as this picture should be made, on a scale in keeping with the sublimity of the theme, with all the splendor and wealth of material which the theme itself lends, and with all the wonderful technical resources which the art of the motion picture now commands, will be the most unique event in the history of motion picture production and an achievement in the cause of religion whose far-reaching results are beyond computation...
Each national board of editors has sought to avoid political history, save as it illuminates the common theme, the country's socio-economic history. Each board includes an estimate of "War Costs," statistical and imponderable, leaving the final balancing to later years...
...usual cover design is that of a woman in as little clothing as the law allows, so disporting herself as to show a maximum amount of nudity compatible with retention of second-class mailing privileges. Within the cover one finds the same theme played up. ... Nor is the male neglected. Macfadden himself in various stages of undress, and various other supermen with little on but a surcingle doubtless attract many quarters? from girls and women who feel the biologic urge...