Word: ultramodern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...criminal code may surely appear to most as a drastic reform. Considering the national peculiarities of the country, however, any discussion of the particular measures should prove of interest and even of value. The substitution of expert alienists in place of a jury system has at least the ultramodern touch; the alleviation of fines to suit the individual income of the prisoner though departing from the stern unswerving rigors of the usual courts of justice, seems in line with proper social ethics; whereas the last important item, the establishment of a federal committee to assist ex-convicts in social...
...girl. As a novel, The King Who Was a King is thus unconventional in form. The fact that it is the author's description of a possible film, gives the story an effect less real than it would have on the screen. Paul's dream of ultramodern warfare on land, sea and air, with poison gas, liquid fire, mob massacre, would make Hollywood producers tremble not only at the moral shock this might cause on the box-office front, but in itself would necessitate the hire of air fleets and duels, a Cathedral and High Mass, hordes...
...part of a class so necessary to the dance's success as a social affair has waned considerably. It is of course difficult for each successive class to believe that it cannot improve on the efforts of its predecessor. The paramount conviction is that Memorial Hall has, in this ultramodern age, proved the nemesis of the dance and that its success would be assured by transference of the festivity to an up-to-date Boston ballroom. The class officers could petition for such a radical change of the character of the dance, but in the opinion of the CRIMSON...
...ship-insurance brokers which is known throughout the Globe simply as Lloyd's. Last week the new home of this most potent association stood completed, and was opened by the King-Emperor. Majestic it stands in Leadenhall Street, not far from the Bank of England. Spacious, commodious and ultramodern, the new Lloyd's seems as remote as possible from the 17th Century coffee house of one Edward Lloyd under whose hospitable aegis ship owners and men of business came gradually and clannishly to unite their interests and immortalize their innkeeper...
...written a symphonic poem which sounds so admirably like a locomotive as famed Arthur Honegger, head of that ultraModern group of Parisian composers, Les Six. But last week Composer Honegger was struck by the thought that his "train symphony," Pacific 231, only interprets a locomotive from the standpoint of pedestrians or others not in the cab. "How," asked Arthur Honegger excitedly of himself, "how does a locomotive sound to the engineer...