Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But fortune finally smiled on him. He caught the eye of President Theodore Roosevelt by subduing the fierce Moros of Mindanao. The President praised him publicly, attended his wedding to Helen Frances Warren, daughter of Wyoming's Senator Francis E. Warren. In 1906 Roosevelt caused a sensation by promoting...
In The Moth, Hollywood's hoary old sensation-monger James M. Cain tells the story of a nice boy-nice, that is, by comparison with other guys he has written about. Mr. Cain's new hero has a sense of beauty and even a sense of guilt. His...
Last week Fallwell's "epitaph" was the publishing sensation of northeastern Oregon. Reader response to the first installments of Boyhood Experiences of the Old Man from the Country overwhelmed the Observer: total strangers were clipping out the columns and business at Fallwell's Half-Way Market was at...
In April 1889 ... a famous poet .,. recited How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix into a toy designed to preserve the spoken word upon a wax-covered cylinder. All went well until the poet came to the words, "Speed! echoed the . . ." Then he hesitated, and said: "I...
Mrs. Lucas, who runs Manhattan's Cordon Bleu Restaurant and cooking school, is something of a television sensation. Recently, she had to hire a secretary to handle the mail (900 letters a week after an average program, as many as 1,500 after a particularly tasty-looking dish).