Word: spectacular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Only by spectacular violence and bloodshed do local strikes attain national prominence. Last week a street car* strike in New Orleans attained that prominence. Two strikers were killed, five trolleys were burned to the trucks, a car barn was dynamited, trackage was destroyed, switches cemented. The only other strike so far this year to "go rough" in like fashion has been at Gastonia, N. C. (see below...
...Strawbridge's plan, refinement is the keynote, for she proposes "no spectacular crusade, no public meetings, no newspaper publicity-nothing of that sort at all. My thought is simply that if people whose wealth and position clothe them with the power of example can be induced to set an example, as Mrs. Mc-Lean is trying to do, we could be of inestimable aid to the President...
Made in Germany, imported to France, is the cult of Nudism, a mulligan stew of vegetarianism, physical culture and pagan worship. The outstanding feature is that all devotees must live in a state of complete spectacular nudity.* Much publicity has been given the Nudist colony on an island in the Seine near Paris. Lively have been their arguments, moral, economic, religious, with Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe over the matter of bathing trunks. Some weeks ago a young French reporter paid a secret visit to the Nudist colony. So depressing, so disillusioning was his published account of the flabby spectacle...
...difficult shot. To Cyril Tolley who won it at Muirfield nine years ago again went the championship. He, a links behemoth, has obtained most fame from his prodigious drives. In 1923 at Troon he drove to the green on a 350-yard hole. Last week his drives were still spectacular and, rare for him, he putted and approached with steady skill...
This is a summary account of the high spots in the record of a single year's routine at the Harvard Library. Other chapters could be written, that would be less spectacular but just as full of every-day human interest and quite as important for the all around development of the Library as the greatest of all collections for the prosecution of productive scholarship, as well as for the education of young Americans. More significant than anything else in this record, however, is the fact that nothing has happened in 1928-29 which is not likely to be matched...