Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Raft's rise from coal miner, gigolo, and cabaret performer, to night club owner is accomplished by his repeated refusal to mix business with pleasure, firing his dancing partners when they interfere with his consuming desire to be famous. Becoming a sensation in London and Paris with Helen (Carole Lombard...
Suddenly the passing of a solitary automobile shatters the stillness; the regular throbbing of the night falters, the all but unbearable pressure of the vast silence is relieved. Then almost imperceptibly the lost beat gradually resumes its monotonous crescendo; the night, forcing down more determinedly than ever, creeps in around...
Paul deGive, hockey captain, Jayvee football quarterback and sensation of last year's pitching staff who amazed everybody by his twirling in the Yale game last spring is due to get the call on the mound today. If he hasn't hit his stride yet and seems to be getting...
THE SHADOW BEFORE-William Rollins Jr.-Me Bride ($2.50). Few readers of this novel of U. S. industrial warfare will doubt where Author Rollins' sympathies are, but fewer will be able to accuse him of bedizening reality with overmuch Red paint. Author Rollins' picture of a U. S...
Newspaper readers who remember the Gastonia, N. C. mill strike (TIME, Aug. 12, 1929, et seq.) will recognize bits of the ensuing trial scene. Trial highspots: the prosecution raises a laugh against a defense witness by hanging on him the old joke about getting syphilis in a toilet; the defense...