Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Naval Hero David Porter thought the process gave "a sensation both harmless and agreeable, producing a pleasant glow or heat somewhat similar to that which is felt on entering a warm bath." Less battle-hardened sitters found it as painful as primitive dentistry. "I was taken in by Browere," wrote...
Most infant prodigies are unusually terrible children who have an unusual faculty for aping their elders. Few ever graduate from the ape stage. Few ever hold the concert platform after their apishness has outgrown its disarming garb of knee britches and Dutch cuts. But once or twice in a generation...
A sensation there was last week at Manhattan's Town Hall. There, with practically no advance ballyhoo, a slight, dark-eyed, French-Canadian nine-year-old named André Mathieu hurried onto the stage, bowed stiffly, and pounced upon the keyboard of a huge concert grand. The audience applauded...
Biographer Ballou introduces her subject with an overwritten essay, then settles down to a straightforward, less flighty account of Ella's dreamy girlhood in an irritable and defeated Wisconsin farm family, her indefatigable poem writing (sometimes eight a day), her conquering arrival in Milwaukee, her instinctive refusal of such...
A man in a slouch hat sidled up to a drugstore counter, cast a furtive look about him and beckoned to the druggist. "Say, Bud, I have a young man assisting me on the road. ... He tells me that he has a burning sensation, a sort of continual discharge. . . ."