Word: slam-bang
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Year after that her mother, born a Newport Oelrichs, saw Diana smolderingly through a slam-bang debut at Manhattan's River Club. It was Brenda Frazier's season. The late Cholly Knickerbocker ticketed Diana as Personality Deb of the Year, swore she could have outstripped blazing Brenda as Glamor Girl if she had half tried. Diana palled around with Brenda a little, was reported engaged to Anthony Duke, Francis Kellogg, Harry Ellerbee (whom she called Poopsie), Sir William Wrixon-Becher, and a convoy of others, including Actor Bramwell Fletcher. Last summer, yes-she married...
Thus Navy task missions out of Honolulu have become hell-for-leather, slam-bang affairs planned with the stealthy calculation of Indian raids, and executed with the bludgeon force of gang assassinations. For this kind of operation, well executed in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands and in the assault on Marcus Island only 1,200 miles from Tokyo, the U.S. public could thank Planner Nimitz...
...offset the expected sales decline, both houses have reduced forward buying almost to a standstill. Until last April both were buying in slam-bang fashion, were taking commitments two years ahead (normal: three to five months). Then Sears began slowing down. Montgomery Ward woke up two months ago to find its inventory at record heights, its forward commitments 80% above normal. It began buying only for replacement...
This alarming news came out of the 22nd annual American Petroleum Institute meeting held last week in San Francisco's Palace and St. Francis hotels. For five days the 3,000 attending oilmen attended round tables, listened to technical lecturers (and a slam-bang harangue by Oil Tsar Ickes), played golf at Del Monte, cavorted with Chinese-costumed information girls. The hotel's 40-ft. bar was so jammed that thirsty newsmen had to fight for a drink...
Then something happened. In ten minutes Wendell Willkie had lost his audience. The speech was logical, well-argued, businesslike-but not the stuff for a throng that wanted emotion, excitement, slam-bang oratory. The applause, at first hopeful, then despondent, finally narrowed down to the reserved seats. That night Willkie's shaken assistant kept from him the news of the Friday Gallup poll...