Word: phantoms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scandal. Among the millions most unfortunately herded in cities, the starved minds fed by the new press are the literate leaders. It is in part their grotesque reflection in the picture papers that gives shape to the apprehensions of "The New Barbarians" and truth to the pessimism of "The Phantom Public...
...play. For two fall acts she is tyrannized by the depraved sister, the ghastliest apparation that ever sipped absinthe for breakfast. Miss Grace Mencken, as the sister Nana, succeeded in raising the gooseflesh of horror on one member of the audience, at least, for the first time since the Phantom of the Opera was unmasked. As Chico, a handsome, Apache-like figure, turned atheist after burning candles and praying without avail to St. Antoine for a job as street washer, a golden-haired wife and enough money to make "le grand four" in a Parisian taxicab, Mr. Louis D' Arclay...
...ones, new ones, sad ones, naughty ones, for a measured judgment. There was, for instance, a picture by a Russian, one David Burliul, in which he visualized the vibrations of modern city life in what he defined as "radio style." Eitaro Ishigaki, a Japanese, drew a picture of a phantom on the point of being crushed by a thousand falling elevated trains and run over by a horde of cockroach taxicabs. It was a "satire on the U. S. flapper." Noboru Foujioka painted some dejected cretins playing at cards, called it "American Spirit." And another member of the Jap-Manhattan...
...their own home cities; and sat down to their dinners, heard the radios being tuned in, and pushed back their chairs, lit their cigars, waited for the big speech of the evening. The main dinner of the evening was being held in Manhattan, but it was an "All-Technology Phantom Radio Dinner" such as only technical men could imagine, devise and carry out. An interlocking chain of broadcasting stations brought them all together, from Massachusetts to California. The main speaker of the evening was not in Manhattan, as other speakers were not. Dr. Samuel Wesley Stratton, President of Technology (Massachusetts...
Today as the crowds shuffle laboriously across the Anderson bridge, the phantom forms of John Harvard and Eli Yale stalk through their midst, arm in arm, returning to Cambridge after many historic conflicts on the football field. They have met many times before, and in many different situations: in Hamilton Park, New Haven, for the first time, on neutral ground at Spring-field, in Boston baseball parks, in New York, and for years now, alternately in the Bowl and the Stadium. Theirs is the longest football tradition in the country. Between them, they have fathered that ungainly child, the modern...