Word: classicized
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...worst influences in this tendency, he said, is that of the moving pictures. "I have only seen one really worth-while film," he said, "which was one starring the diver, Annette Kellerman. The beauty and grace of her performance could not be equalled outside of the sculpture of classic Greece and yet even this was marred by the taint of realism. Whenever she would strike the water someone behind the screen struck a cymbal to represent the splash...
...greatest of them all was John the Orangeman. For half a century he was the most popular man in Cambridge. His title to immortality is a now classic phrase which he coined in an inspired moment and repeated ever afterward on suitable occasions: "Ter bell wid Yale!" This won for him the mascotship of all Harvard teams, and in that official capacity he traveled with them wherever the fair name of Harvard was to be upheld on the field of combat...
That impeccable magazine, Motion Picture Classic, disputes with Vanity Fair the right to tell the American people how to do what when. In a current advertisement it asks these questions of a baffled public...
...Motion Picture Classic would curry favor at the University, it is suggested that it ask and answer such questions as the following...
There are obvious disadvantages to having such receptacles about: some artistic temperaments might be crazed by the violation of the classic beauty of the Yard. I only beg them to compare the pictures. There is a proverb somewhere about the "lesser of two evils is there...