Word: worldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...come. Oh, it may not come in my time; I am getting near the end. But I am thinking of the men 20 years younger than myself [he is 70]. . . . Who would not have laughed at a man that 20 years ago had attempted to picture to the world the terrible orgy of slaughter of 1914-18? . . . It may not even come from without-who knows? I can remember . . . that I sat with my father in our home in a little town in England and heard him read in the newspaper about the fall of Richmond. . . . One of the great...
...young lawyer in Budapest, with a wife and infant child, has just recovered from an illness and is looking for a job when the World War breaks out. He unheroically volunteers (he has flat feet). To his great surprise he is accepted, goes to training camp, then to the front, is captured by the Russians, and, in company with thousands of German and Austrian prisoners, is sent from one prison camp to another, finally landing in Siberia. There, for almost six years, he stays...
...sound-film devices (TIME, May 27, et seq.). Last week in Geneva their complaint was internationally amplified before the International Labor Organization, associate organization of the League of Nations, which had called a committee to consider ways and means of helping musicians compete with sound machines throughout the world...
...Manhattan, he found himself near No. 195 Broadway, then headquarters of WEAF. He walked in, took a voice test, got a job. Fame came quickly. His reporting of the long-drawn 1924, Democratic National Convention in Manhattan established him as most popular U. S. announcer. Soon no football game, world series, horse race, prizefight, inauguration was complete without...
...Theremin, admittedly an uncannily clever invention, Olin Downes wrote in the New York Times: ''We do not like to think of a populace at the mercy of this fearfully magnified and potent tone that Professor Theremin has brought into the world. The radio machines are bad enough, but what will happen to the auditory nerves in a land where super-Theremin machines can hurl a jazz ditty through the atmosphere with such horribly magnified sonorities that they could deaden the sound of an automobile exhaust from 20 miles away...