Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sensation of Ethiopia today are newly arrived Moscow correspondents and cinemen representing Tass, official Soviet news agency. Seemingly supplied with unlimited funds and spending right & left, they say they are "preparing a complete photographic document of Ethiopia," were splashing vigorously about in Dessye last week making most elaborate shots of...
Throughout her career Fremstad retained this ability to work herself into a state of dramatic exaltation. But unlike most singers who have exerted a compelling emotional appeal, everything she accomplished was the result of grueling work. To learn English and to get some schooling, her father bound her out to...
Amiably discussing the song with a reporter, Trombonist Riley told how he had played it on a battered German flügel horn for several months this autumn, how it had become a sensation among metropolitan stay-up-lates, how Rudy Vallee had put it on the air, thus starting...
When Lenglen turned professional, tennis authorities were loudly indignant. They anticipated immediate trouble when other amateurs followed her example. Promoter Pyle went bankrupt, Suzanne Lenglen retired and professional tennis was in the doldrums when it was rescued by Miss Lenglen's onetime trainer, William O'Brien, now No...
René Clair (Sous les Toits de Paris, Le Million, A Nous la Libertè) and the French film industry have been almost synonymous in most people's minds since 1930, when his first important film was an international sensation. In addition to being the only important director in...