Word: sensationalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the publication of The Arabian Nights five years before his death in 1890, Burton became a literary sensation, was knighted by Queen Victoria-not for his embarrassingly faithful translation but for his explorations. His next effort, a translation of The Scented Garden, was to make "Mrs. Grundy howl." But...
Senator Burton K. Wheeler, first opposition witness, had made his sensation with Chief Justice Hughes's letter refuting the argument that the Court is overburdened (TIME, March 29)-a point on which the President's warmest supporters heartily wish that he had rejected his Attorney General's...
Sensation of the Moscow week, apart from the unprecedented behavior of Bolshevik bigwigs who never before have attended Embassy functions, was an abnormally candid speech "made privately" to 700 Soviet industrial managers by the newly appointed Commissar of Heavy Industry Valery I. Mezhlauk (TIME, March 8). Since 700 people are...
All teeming institutions with free or nominal tuition, the U. S. municipal universities tend to make up in headlines what they lack in number. Municipal University of Omaha caused a sensation two years ago when its President William E. Sealock poisoned himself after quarreling with the conservative townsmen on his...
Pretty Betsy Canning was a long time finding out that Husband Alec was not the man she, thought she married. For 15 years she had been the wife of an obscure civil servant who seemed as pleased as she was with their three children, a tasteful circle of friends as...