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...does not appear whether Einstein's readiness for the project was due to a prickly dissatisfaction with the existing popularizations of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. These have appeared in a steady stream since-to his complete bewilderment-his newspaper fame flowered in the 1920s. It is noteworthy that Einstein's book contains none of the mystical discursions of Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans. The cast of characters in The Evolution of Physics does not include...
...scales and intervals derived from ancient synagogal hymns. In 1916 a tour as conductor of a dance troupe took him to the U. S., stranded him in Manhattan. Since then he has made the U. S. his home. He began to write his most important works in the early 1920s while serving as director of the Cleveland Institute of Music. He left Cleveland after a row with the Institute's management in 1925. settled in San Francisco. Today, supported by a wealthy Pacific Coast philanthropist, he divides his time between California and Switzerland...
...exact duplicate, gags and all, of the old-time one. But in 1898 top weight for burlesque beauties was 180 pounds; today all Beef-Trusters weigh 200 or more. The Trust got its name during a Chicago stockyards investigation, trouped for 25 years, laid off in the early 1920s. Last week a new generation greeted it with the same roars, in the same places, for the same reason...
...increasing number of sales on the installment plan seems to indicate that consumers like it. Retailers now sell almost everything on installments-not only "hard" goods, the washing machines, jewelry, and automobiles of the 1920s, but also "soft" goods, tires, clothing, perfume, goods which are consumed quickly or which have no second-hand value-so retailers evidently like it. Finance companies handle about two-thirds of all installment sales and they like it. But Mr. Merriam does not like it. The finance companies, who are the most articulate defenders of the installment system, point to their Depression record. Between...
Following an oration by funereal John Martin, dance critic of the New York Times, veteran Ruth St. Denis, artistic progenitor of most modern American expressionists, evoked past history as the evening's curtain raiser. The Japanese maiden of White Jade, more familiar to dance audiences of the medieval 1920s, proved the program's high point in pleasantness...