Word: adventism
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...Elliott Springs's bottom harness and bosom bolster advertising [TIME, July 26] is the most refreshing contribution to the gaiety of the nation since the advent of the Petty girl...
Union Square on Broadway. Their advent was not unexpected. For four hours a group of Catholic War Veterans had been trickling up with signs of their own, to picket the pickets. In strength they about equaled the opposition. Thousands of expectant bystanders choked the streets. Some 100 policemen, 15 on horseback, were also on hand...
...earth may have to fall back on the descendants of "the winged insects [which came] into existence about 250 million years ago." Could these ants and bees "acquire even that glimmer of intellectual understanding that man has possessed in his day," they might rebuild civilization-looking back on "the advent of the mammals, and the brief reign of the human mammal, as almost irrelevant episodes, 'full of sound and fury, signifying nothing...
...Right to Be Rich. Authors Case & Case do not examine intently enough the reasons for Chautauqua's rapid decline (the explanations advanced-the advent of good roads, movies and radio-might explain a falling-off, but not a collapse). But they tell just how the system worked and a good deal about the performers who took to the "man-killing" circuits (seven days a week, often for three months) during the summer heat. William Jennings Bryan was Chautauqua's top attraction for a quarter-century, sometimes drew over 10,000 customers...
According to this principle, the Hollywood industries are rapidly and disastrously departing farther & farther from motion-picture art, which had almost reached maturity before the advent of the sound. Talk all you want, but let the screen action be always fully clear and understandable even if all the talk is canceled...