Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...note the following in the Chicago Herald and Examiner: CRITIC FALLS VICTIM OF WORD ORGY...
...word that shocked Critic Stevens was a Latin-derived synonym for stage-hackneyed Sex-a synonym seldom heard outside biology. TIME approved the word's scientific quality and doubts that the most prurient-minded of Victorian butlers would have suspected what was meant...
...Dramatic Critic of TIME has fused scientific accuracy and poetic genius when he characterizes atoms as "the tiny secret stars that whirl in thumbnail welkins...
...California, following his graduation from Leland Stanford University in 1903, that Renaud got his early newspaper training. For nine years he worked on San Francisco dailies, becoming dramatic critic for the Bulletin and the Chronicle. In 1912 he went to New York with a letter of introduction from Will Irwin and got a job on the oldtime Globe...
...York World last week Critic Samuel Chotzinoff printed a list of his ten favorite operas...