Word: sensationalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nine years ago, in a play of mine in rehearsal in the Lyric Theatre in London, the time was supposed to change from the present to 1783, during a blackout. We were afraid the audience wouldn't believe in this. So Professor Wood installed for us, against the theatre...
This indignant blast by Producer Walter Wanger last month; announcement that during the filming of Blockade mysterious strangers had been snooping about the set; and a report that when it was completed, a print was sent to General Franco's agents were all characteristic of the ballyhoo preceding the...
"It was a terrible sensation," pilot Stevens declared. "We grabbed each other to see if we were both unhurt. Neither of us had a scratch. Then we slid down to earth."
The arrest of Jimmy Hines was more a political than criminal sensation. For Jimmy Hines is one of the most potent district leaders of Tammany. When most of Tammany turned against Franklin Roosevelt, Hines remained faithful, enormously enhancing his stand-in with the New Deal. He now distributes much Federal...
On their little blackboards placed outside the boundaries of the course, British bookmakers chalked their odds. Favorite at 8-to-1 was Johnny Goodman who had impressed Londoners as well as canny natives on the Ayrshire coast during his practice rounds since landing in the British Isles the week before...