Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rather an exultant dirge over the corpse in an Atlantic Monthly article. "Every evidence shows that the game is being killed," he concludes, "by its own excesses. To argue that this is good or bad is useless. Football's day is done." He attributes the collapse of the football boom of the 1920's to a realization on the part of undergraduates--first articulated by the Harvard CRIMSON in 1925--that the game had developed into a top-heavy exhibition for the glorification of a few for the amusement of the many, and to the general public's unwillingness...
Over the Exhibition the Guardian glowed: "The surprising bicycle 'boom' of the last 18 months is shown here in all its glory, from midget machines to luxurious tandems with no fewer than eight gears which can be changed with a flick of the wrist while the cyclists are actually pedaling. There is thus no need on these machines to freewheel while slipping into another gear...
...year of the Custer Massacre. Before he was old enough to enter a saloon he struck out for Nevada. In Winnemucca he learned faro, poker, bird-cage and 21. He was soon called "The Boy Gambler" and banked his own faro. He was in Goldfield during the 1906 boom, made a million dollars in mining stocks. His contemporaries in those days included the late Tex Rickard, who was running a gambling hall, and Charles Victor Bob, engineer-promoter. His gambling halls grew so large that his cashiers began handling $5,000,000 a year. Nevadans regard...
Suddenly an unearthly din disturbes the peaceful quiet of the night as the distant boom of a gun repounds through the hills. Bells in every division of barracks clang furiously. A group of men the Bell Cats start blowing bugles and beating on drums as if their very lives depended upon the ferociousness with which they did it. This is reveille at the United States Military Academy...
...went from factory to factory as the economic spirit drove her. Outside of work hours she lived. When Bill got a good job in Detroit and sent for her. Molly was pleased to go, pleased to be a married woman and not work in a factory any more. But boom times went quickly, jobs got scarce, finally nonexistent. Bill and Molly quarreled, patched it up. Optimistic Molly thought things would pick up soon, but Bill knew better. He thought & thought till he had decided what to do. When Molly was asleep he shot her. After that he meant to turn...