Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next sensation broke in Paris. In 1909 Epstein was commissioned to carve a figure for Oscar Wilde's tomb. He purchased a 20-ton block of stone, spent nine months in London carving "a demon-angel, in full flight across the face of the world," transported the work to...
Her fans had known all along what was coming. Hazel Scott, star Negro entertainer of Manhattan's Cafe Society Uptown, was doing what she does best, the thing that has lifted her into showdom's top rank and made her this season's Manhattan sensation: swinging the...
> The Homestead steelworkers' strike of 1892 inspired Father Was Killed by the Pinkerton Men. And Du Maurier's romantic novel sensation of 1894 brought forth:
Disaster. A previously inept politico, Franco demonstrated that the stress & strain of being dictator of a gaunt, proud land still in a state of civil war had taught him a few lessons. He canned both General Varela and Serrano in a Cabinet shakeup that became an international sensation.
That is what it is like to be inside a sturdy observation tower a mile from the exploding block busters which the Army is now testing at the Aberdeen Proving Ground. But the observers don't go through it for the sensation. The craters are measured, the radius of...