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When she came onstage in the first-act church scene, carrying flowers, she looked like a faded portrait out of the 1920s. Amidst wild applause, she gazed artfully at the upper tiers; then, after putting her flowers on the altar, she walked slowly to the front of the stage, and kneeling on one knee, bowed to the floor. The ovation lasted for two minutes...
...Woodruff, who has the build of a lumberjack, the face of an intelligent fullback, runs the company with a relentless executive grip. He recalls how, in the 1920s, he discovered one day that per capita Coca-Cola sales in Montreal were larger than those in Miami. Then & there he decided that Coca-Cola was destined to spread beyond the U.S., across the world...
...1920s, Andre Maurois wrote Ariel, a pastiche of Shelley's life which was neither imaginative enough to be a good novel nor close enough to history to be a good biography. But since Ariel was highly readable, and since a lot of people proved to be curious about romantic poets, Maurois soon had a hit on his hands. With this encouragement he turned out polished and readable, and somewhat empty lives of Disraeli, Byron and Dickens. Reread today, such Maurois works seem pretty thin; where the peerless Lytton (Eminent Victorians) Strachey was genuinely witty, Maurois was merely suave; where...
...delegates to the Progressive Party's second annual convention headed for Chicago last week, their chattering political machine seemed on the verge of disintegrating in a cloud of steam like a vaudeville Ford of the 1920s. A faction headed by former Assistant U.S. Attorney General O. John Rogge was threatening to yank the Communists out of the driver's seat-an operation which seemed likely to shatter the weakened chassis and send Henry Wallace flying skyward in a spray of worn piston rings...
...1920s, young mothers rejected every last remnant of Victorianism. Mother love was replaced by "science." Freudianism was being "interpreted to mean that repression was bad for the child." The "feed-'em-on-schedule, let-'em-cry-it-out" school of thought was in command...