Word: craze
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Throughout the War Mr. Gernsback busied himself with writing scientific romances for his magazine about imagined super-tanks as big as ten locomotives, a hundred, a thousand. . . . With the welling up of the radio craze he began to publish Radio News, the Radio Review and Radio InternacionaL Now this precursor of all "radio hugs" has gambled that the U. S. may have developed a new morality, may be ready to buy a sex magazine almost without sex appeal. The first issue of Your Body carried the intimation that the next copy may appear in "about six months," asked: "Would...
...help America when it gets the Eskimo craze, begins to eat seal blubber and wears its flannels twelve months in the year. Just now the Riffa have got us, and promise to keep us until they have exhausted the Spanish Shawl market and the Morroco Leather Trust. To meet the popular demand Lady Fair has been ground out, and now, on the eve of its New York production it is being given the third degree at the Shubert...
...exercise of this archaic mode of expression, the drama continued until some 50 years ago, when there came the craze for realism. This, in its demand for photographic reproduction of life and its problems, which later evolved into the social drama of Ibsen and Galsworthy, ousted the spiritual element in the drama, killed imaginative dramatic writing, and was all of a piece with the growing materialistic tendency of the latter quarter of the nineteenth and the early years of the twentieth century...
...foolproof" plane that must some day be developed to make flying as general as automobiling; promised that the international competition, made "interesting" by $150,000 to $200,000, which the Guggenheim Foundation is to conduct over the next three years, would turn designer's minds from the speed craze* to safety. The principal factors to be developed: slower landing speeds, steeper landing angles...
Observers hoped that the "stunt craze" which has swept Germany of late may abate before this official restraint. Heretofore the "endurance artists" have earned much pelf as a drawing card for the curious at cafés, night clubs, beer gardens...