Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brisson was a sensation abroad for years, but he has never before scored in the U.S. Although his voice has velour on its chest, he is in no sense effete. Born Carl Petersen in Copenhagen, he stepped into the fight ring as a boy, rose to be "cruiserweight" champion of...
To turn this silky swatch of cruelty and suffering into dramatically coherent, steadily intensifying terror takes considerable style in the staging, and gets a lot of it from everyone involved, especially from Cinemactress Bergman. She wears her bustled gowns in a way to set off the flagrantly beautiful interiors of...
The Brett. The Honorable Dorothy Brett was born in London (1891), daughter of Reginald Baliol Brett, Viscount Esher, friend and adviser of Britain's shrewd, sporty King Edward VII. Dorothy studied art at London's Slade School. In her art-student days she met Novelist D. H. Lawrence...
Here's the idea. A guy who never heard jazz before meanders into the room for a drink and is assailed with 18 choruses of "Sensation Rag." Ordinarily, he might think "Ki-rist, what the hell is this?" but a little card on the table explains "You are listening to...
An ardent feminist and a neutral at the beginning of World War I, she got into politics as Wilson's supporter, made Liberty Loan speeches, drilled with voice specialists, wrote the short stories and novels that made her fortune: Just Around the Corner, Every Soul Hath Its Song, Land...