Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In his Boston studio, Cartoonist Capp, a sort of Rabelais in modern dress, pretended that these enormous implications were lost on him. "My first sensation," he said, "was just the joy of having made the shmoo. Then came a feeling of annoyance. I've been subjected to all the...
Research into cancer leads workers into many byways, occasionally into danger. In September, Biochemist Herbert Winegard began to study a substance called ergo-thioneine, a sulphur compound found in abnormal amounts in the urine of cancer patients; it may, chemists think, affect the growth of cancer. In order to make...
There wasn't any. But in Paris last week, even without music, Choreographer David Lichine's ballet The Creation, danced by the Ballets des Champs-Elysées, was the kind of new sensation that Parisians save their loudest bravos for.* Part of the cheers were for France...
Flappers & Cartwheels. The next year, Tallulah got to England, and became an immediate sensation. As a cigarette-smoking, short-skirted vamp, she was a hit in her first play. The part she played set the style for a series of underdressed, sexy roles, including a drunk flapper, a chorus girl...
The Journal was not alone in feeling a sinking sensation. The Audit Bureau of Circulation, the admen's statistical bible, showed that the Saturday Evening Post and McCall's had also fallen below their circulation bases for brief periods during last spring's newsstand slump.