Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paul Poiret, always theatrical, startled fashion scouts with high Elizabethan ruffs on formal afternoon dresses, with lame skirts over lace trousers, an evening sensation.
Teenie Weenie. Still profiting from the fad-of-the-land last week were the owners of Tom Thumb Golf courses (TIME, July 14, Aug. 11). But a new rival arose. Advertised Stern Brothers, Manhattan department store: "Play on your own lawn. . . . Teenie Weenie Lawn Golf . . . the new game sensation . . . $7.50...
Manhattan. Second oldest of U. S. summer concert programs (13th season) is the Philharmonic-Symphony series held in Lewisohn Stadium. Notable on the program of eight weeks will be the "Launcelot" symphony of Albert Coates, conductor of the London Symphony, which will be given its premiere under his baton. Composer...
Never long withdrawn from public attention are the names of William Carl Grunow and Bertram James Grigsby. Year after year, the behavior of the common stock of their Grigsby-Grunow (Majestic) radio manufacturing company has been the sensation of the Chicago Exchange. For this reason, and because the radio industry...
Biological research on starvation indicates that the stomach contractions continue throughout. In extreme starvation they may become prolonged and tetanic (griping) in character. Cessation of the actual sensation of pain probably is attributable to cerebral depression and asthenia of the stomach.