Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seven years ago a sleek, pale-faced young Russian Jew rushed up the back steps of Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, tore off his coat and hat, took a photograph of Liszt from his pocket, glanced at it prayerfully, then fairly galloped out on the stage for his U. S...
Last week the old familiar Epstein sensation was going full blast again. The Daily Mirror, stirred to the depths of its cylinder presses, refused to reproduce a photograph of it.
Used to such ruckuses, Sculptor Epstein said nothing at all, merely let it be known that the asking price for his latest sensation was $15,000, that he would like to see it erected in some modern church.
Lick-lip melodrama from the word go. Paprika unrolls a rapid narrative of gypsy love, fistfights, Budapest night life, drunken officers, and a plethora of bedroom scenes. Paprika was the platinum-blonde bastard of a Hungarian nobleman and a gypsy queen. She grew up in the same wagon with Rogi...
Most newsreaders remember Starr Faithfull, if they bother to remember her at all, as a pretty young girl whose bruised body, with veronal in the liver, was washed ashore at Long Beach, N. Y. one day in June four years ago (TIME, June 29, 1931). Partly because of her incredible...