Word: craze
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...German promoters will follow the most advanced trend in the British greyhound racing craze, by holding meets on an illuminated track between the smart hours...
...adventurous and inquisitive Provincetown Playhouse tucked darkly away in downtown Manhattan has made another rabid experiment. One Michael Swift, distressed at many phases of U. S. life, particularly at the craze for gold, has collected his complaints in a play. He sets it in the California gold rush days and much of it occurs in a boisterous bar. Gold is discovered under the floor. There is a gold rush. Bright scarlet women circulate suggestively. Men howl for whiskey. There is no pretense at connected story. Mr. Swift is seemingly as much at war with dramatic forms as with this world...
...newspaper-readers were thus assured that Channel-swimming would not be a headline craze again this summer. Miss Ederle, now appearing in "small-time" U. S. vaudeville, and other swimmers may have felt vexed at the "fickleness" of public interest. But beside scientific travel over a whole ocean, for example, muscular travel across a 20-mile tide race seemed to have shrunk to the proportions of a frog beside an eagle...
Conspicuous now, throughout the U. S. and England, is a craze- questions and answers. This is being applied by the International Advertising Association with the purpose of finding out what various groups of people believe about religion. Last week, 1,000 hearty Dartmouth College undergraduates, who brave the Hanover (N. H.) winter with the aid of supplies from Canada, answered the following questionnaire in the following manner...
...Harvard CRIMSON rushed editorially to the defense of Mr. George F. Babbitt recently, working on the basis that attack is the best defense. For Mr. Babbitt's detractors, the CRIMSON points out, are most uniform indeed in their criticism and in their theories of aesthetics. "Is not the craze of standardization revealed in this very attitude? These intelligentsia have their own conception of what constitutes culture, and they are dissatisfied because all Americans are not standardized on that particular pattern...